On Monday 20 May 2019 02:21:20 pm Étienne Mollier wrote: > 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,
Absolutely spot on, Étienne Mollier, thank you very much. Now cron has about 2 weeks work to catch up on. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
