On 02-Aug-05, 10:09 (CDT), Martynas Domarkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On fresh Sarge installation (from scratch) /usr/bin/crontab is installed
> as SGID and belongs to crontab group. /var/spool/cron/crontabs also
> belongs to group crontab and has permisions 1730. After distupgrade
> /usr/bin/crontab is installed SUID root, and /var/spool/cron/crontabs
> 0755. I get crontab -e working only after changed permissions mentioned
> above by hand.
For the upgraded system, are you using LDAP or NIS for your user
database? I've had one other report of an upgrade acting like yours, and
that was the problem: the cron upgrade needs access to the user db, but
during a full system upgrade, NIS wasn't available.
Steve
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