[NTLUG:Discuss] why is cron user different from user

[Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)]

Tell me what permissions do the files have?

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From: Fred James [mailto:fredjame at concentric.net]
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Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:

>Check the file ownership. I'm sure that when the cron job created the files it set the owner of the file to someone other than the user ABC. That's why you are getting the permission error.
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>Hope this helped.
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>Harshal.
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>From: Fred James [mailto:fredjame at concentric.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:36 PM
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>RH 7.3 - if that makes a difference.
>I have run into this on different systems, so I don't think the distro 
>makes a difference but I could be wrong.
>User ABC set her/his crontab to start a script, and the script creates 
>some files.
>User ABC runs a script from the command line to "mv" those files, and 
>gets a "Permission denied" message.
>What's up with that?
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File ownership is correct.  Still no go.

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