Hi,
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:48:20PM -0300, Facundo Aguirre wrote:
> Package: debian-reference-en
> Version: 2.46
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> In section "9.5.14. Scheduling tasks regularly" it says that if you are
> a member of crontab group, you can schedule to run processes as a normal
> user.
Yes.
$ cd /var/spool/cron
$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 14 08:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 14 09:25 ..
drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 4096 Sep 14 08:20 atjobs
drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 4096 Nov 30 2009 atspool
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 18 14:57 crontabs
$ sudo ls -la crontabs
total 12
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 18 14:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 14 08:17 ..
-rw------- 1 osamu crontab 1141 Sep 18 14:57 osamu
If you are not, you can not have priviridge to edit "osamu" file in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs. ("osamu" is for my case on my system.)
> I'm not a member of the crontab group and I can schedule jobs without
> problem. (this is the expected behavior?)
You mean you did not make any special effort to be a member of "crontab".
Your desktop environment etc. may have done something for you.
What happens if you run "id" command.
$ id
uid=1000(osamu) gid=1000(osamu)
groups=1000(osamu),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),102(crontab),108(bluetooth),111(netdev)
If you still do not see "crontab", maybe something is different than I than I
assumed.
Osamu
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