Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2007-03-03 Thread Micha
I think it's a problem with the way exim is configured. Exim is mailing the report locally. So that's why we couldn't find anything about cron-daily, man-db, or file permissions ! I can see the same error on two freshly installed Debian unstable boxes, with completely different archs and settin

Re: /etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied

2006-08-18 Thread Micha
| Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked. No, sorry, even with /var mounted 'suid' i got still the same error mail... /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for | executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid | makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those | permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is

Re: "/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:16:08 +0200 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied Cron likely runs with no (or low level) permissions. > /var is mounted as: > /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-ro) > Hmm. nosuid o

"/etc/cron.daily/man-db: /var/cache/man: Permission denied"

2006-08-17 Thread Micha
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive) Hello, This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error message (sent via local mail): /etc/cron.daily/man-db: find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied and i just can't come up with any explanation. Perh