CRON job marked as UNSAFE and not run

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#1

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Please see the screenshot above; I had a working CRON job set up and working but needed to add another series of commands to it (it basically RSYNCs a bunch of folders from one place to another across the network).

After adding, saving and restarting the CRON service, I’m now getting the error:-


Aug  7 13:30:02 bgrsvr-y /usr/sbin/cron[23879]: (badger_fruit) CMD (/home/badger_fruit/bin/backup-script)
Aug  7 13:30:02 bgrsvr-y /usr/sbin/cron[23877]: (badger_fruit) UNSAFE (badger_fruit)

Can anyone offer any additional information why this would be marked as such?

#2

Perhaps you don’t own the file or it’s writable by other people.

#3

Hi Ken
Thanks for the suggestion but i’ve “ls -l” and it’s owner and group are correct :frowning:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 badger_fruit users 1234 Aug 7 10:37 backup-script

#4

I can not read the screen shot (looks like terminal output, so cut and paste in the post would have worked perfect).

Stupid question: why do you restart cron? After changing the crontab with

crontab -e

nothing is needed.

#5

I didn’t touch the cronjob, i amended the script the cronjob calls. Didn’t realise I didn’t need to restart the service, just did it!

Anyway, problem solved - the log file that the called script runs had had it’s permissions gnarled up somehow; I discovered this when I tried to run the script manually. Changed/reset the permissions and now it’s running fine again!

Hoorah for me :wink:

#6

Hm, hm …