Encrypting Cron job email output.

Neil Williams linux at codehelp.co.uk
Wed Aug 25 11:15:38 CEST 2004


On Wednesday 25 August 2004 9:34, simon wrote:
> When I run the Cron job it gives the 
> following message after it has done its job,
>
> gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir "/home/simon/.gnupg/"

Normally you'd use chmod 700 /home/simon/.gnupg/
If you are still running the cron job as root (is it possible to run it as a 
user and use SUID?), use
       --no-permission-warning
from man gpg

> Is that a problem??

Only that the cron daemon will generate email to you if any task generates 
output like that.

> Simon.

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