Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Monday, September 22 at 1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following: 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://incomin

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Monday, September 22 at 1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following: On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: 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 ba

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Colin Watson
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 n

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp d

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sunday, September 21 at 4:47 pm, Kent West penned the following: What are the permissions on /tmp and on /var/spool/cron? -- Kent toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x5 root root 4.0K Jun 30 2002 /var/spool/cron/ toadstool:~# ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt8 root roo

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
orry, forgot to mention I'm running unstable ... The permissions: ls -l /usr/bin/crontab -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 27K Sep 17 18:18 /usr/bin/crontab toadstool:~# ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ drwx-wx--T2 root crontab 4.0K Sep 21 13:55 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ I made t

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Kent West
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hi all! I hope someone might have an answer to a puzzling question ... 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

Re: crontab: Permission denied

2003-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
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 > [...]