On 5/20/19 8:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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?
Whoopsie, for the sake of precision, I mostly meant GID (Group Identifier) instead of UID (User Identifier). > Absolutely spot on, Étienne Mollier, thank you very much. Now cron has > about 2 weeks work to catch up on. :) Glad to read that :) -- Étienne Mollier <etienne.moll...@mailoo.org>
