On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:30:43PM +0000, Abdul Aziz wrote: > I posted this to debain-user yesterday by mistake. :) > I installed cron along with a few other things (anacron) to test them, > cron runs all right but I get the following message (e-mailed) from > Anacron regarding job cron.daily: > > "nice: cannot set priority:Permission denied." > > cron.daily exits with nothing done. What needs to be done? Any help > appreciated.
That's a known "issue" (read: bug). Priorities don't work right. IIRC, there are Mach issues that make it difficult to implement priorities correctly. See also http://bugs.debian.org/44039 To work around remove all calls to "nice" in the cron scripts under /etc/cron.{daily,monthly,weekly} Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
