what user does cron job run as ?

[hcclnoodles]

Hi there

I have a root cron job that creates a file and in the same script (later on) it deletes it ....however the delete command returns a "permission denied"

Does anybody know why this is ? ...is my cron job running as another user and not root ???

cheers

 

[Annihilannic]

That's very odd, naturally the job should run as 'root'. Does the file have any strange permissions? Is it on local storage or NFS?

Annihilannic.

 

[SamBones]

You mean the "[tt]rm[/tt]" command don't you?

Can you supply the actual error messages that were generated? Can you supply an "[tt]ls -l[/tt]" of the file that won't go?

 

[KenCunningham]

It's possibly the umask setting which is causing the problem, setting the permissions so that deletion isn't possible.

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