Good Day Gene,
On coyote, /var/spool/cron contained:
> drwx-wx--T 2 root systemd-timesync 4096 Mar 31 09:15 crontabs
^^^
You can't go through this "crontab" directory if you are not
root, or a member of the group systemd-timesync. That includes
that you can't read any file below, even if it is attributed to
you.
I would tend to believe that execution of "crontab" related
commands will benefit from the proper UIDs when operating. On
my machine, at the same working directory, I have:
$ sudo ls -lR
.:
total 0
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 21 Feb 28 22:49 crontabs
./crontabs:
total 4
-rw------- 1 user crontab 381 Feb 28 22:49 user
It would seem that your restore attempt conserved UIDs, but
crontab's former UID has become systemd-timesyncd one. Perhaps
a well placed `chgrp -R crontab crontabs/` will do?
Kind Regards,
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Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org>
