I am trying to set up a new job and I am getting the following message

/etc/profile: cannot execute
/baan4c4/bse/tmp/rc.startjoberr: cannot create

Is this profile a unix setting or a Baan setting? I have been administering jobs for quite some time but this time I am using a different user to execute the job.

/etc/profile is OS file for setting environment settings in general for all users .

The user u have set does not have the appropriate authorizations for the folders specified by . U may use usermod / groupmod command to use change the new user's group setting (which will eliminate the errors ) .

looks like you're trying to execute /etc/profile. which you can't do. you instead need to source it by doing

. /etc/profile

The "." means "source" which sort of acts as an #include.

/baan4c4/bse/tmp/rc.startjoberr: cannot create

basically you can't write that file as the cron user, who are you running as? is that path correct?