Cron Job Error Question

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For the past two days, I am getting this message from my cron job after doing and apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade. I’m running Debian 7 on a VPS.

initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket

This error message is also showing up after doing the update and upgrade commands.

2016-07-28 11:46:14: Automatic upgrade: open /usr/local/bin/syncthing264097453: permission denied

The message immediately above shows up when I launch my Syncthing client on a Windows machine. It’s as though my permissions have been changed without my explicit input.

drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 26 13:37 bin

Here are the contents of usr/local/bin:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 26 13:37 . drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 4096 May 14 2014 … -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24994 Feb 26 17:23 speedtest-cli -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15785809 May 26 13:37 syncthing

Here’s the entire message returned from my cron job:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket +/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket +/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket +/com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused

Any ideas on how to resolve this issue.

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The Upstart logs/errors have nothing todo with syncthing.

The permission denied error from syncthing is somewhat obvious. You are running syncthing as non-root, and the binary/directory where it’s trying to download the file is owned by root.

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How do I turn off this downloading job?

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This is automatic upgrades, you can switch them off via the Settings menu.