On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, C. Ray Ng wrote:

> Has any seen the recent updated (3/15/06) vixie-cron-4.1-10.EL3
> on SL3 ? They all stopped functioning with "Permission denied"
> stamped in the log. Stopping and restarting didn't help either.

One incompatible change is that the new version doesn't accept files with 
mode 755 in /etc/cron.d (like on SL4). The message is however "BAD FILE 
MODE". What modes are acceptable isn't documented, but 644 works. The 
reason for this change is beyond me...

Other than that, it works for us - at least on the few systems that 
receive updates early on.

Your issue may or may not be related.

Cheers,
 	Stephan

> Ray
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> C. Ray Ng                      email: crn1 at cornell dot edu
> Cornell University             phone: 607-255-4882
>

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