Re: running cron jobs setpriority permission denied

On 2022-03-08 13:00, Sami Halabi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a jail ran by cbsd which has a cronjob like this:
> * * * * * root /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq
> 
> I see every minute this error logged in /var/log/messages:
> cron[71002]: setpriority 'root' (daemon): Permission denied

Did root set up the cron(8) job?
Is the script/task owned by root?
> 
> I see in ps xau that it runs but at nobody user
> 
> even when loggin to the jail I have:
> cron[68825]: setpriority 'root' (daemon): Permission denied
> login[68900]: setpriority 'root' (root): Permission denied
> jexec[69404]: setpriority 'root' (root): Permission denied
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD j5.sody.com 12.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC  amd64
> 
> what am I missing?
> 
> Sami