On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Why can't my user run crontab? > > > > The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do > > their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a > > normal user, I get nastiness: > > > > crontab -e > > crontabs/monique: Permission denied > > [...] > > crontabs/tmp.WAJKya: Permission denied > > [...] > > My permissions for /var/spool/cron/crontabs : > > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4.0K Sep 21 13:17 cron/crontabs/ > > What does this say for you? Stock Debian: > > ll /usr/bin/crontab > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 22460 Oct 1 2001 /usr/bin/crontab > > ll -d /var/spool/cron/crontabs > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 08:44 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
Stock which version of Debian? The scheme has been changed in unstable, and the permissions match what Monique quoted. So, Monique, you should probably change them back before upgrading lest it confuse something. This is just a plain bug, and I see it on my laptop too. In fact, see http://bugs.debian.org/210838. It looks as if cron 3.0pl1-81 will fix it, so let's try ... yep, works for me. That package is available from http://incoming.debian.org/ for now, and will be installed into unstable proper tomorrow. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
