On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 01:00:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied
The crontabs directory should be owned by root:crontab, not root:root.
> I don't have any such file in /tmp.
Nor should you. /usr/bin/crontab works like sudoedit, and uses temp
fi
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I get an error when running crontab as user:
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/ac: Permission denied
Googling shows a few people with a similar problem but either no
solution or one that doesn't work here (crontab not having setguid or
not in the crontab group).
The permissions
On 24 Jan 2010, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Sorry to follow-up to myself but I solved the problem simply by
reinstalling cron. I don't know what had happened previously but anyway
it's now working correctly.
Anthony
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:46:33PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:36:18 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > no i haven't, but its solved. My /usr/bin/crontab had the wrong
> > permissions -- it was owner:group root:root instead of root:crontab
> > w
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:36:18 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no i haven't, but its solved. My /usr/bin/crontab had the wrong
> permissions -- it was owner:group root:root instead of root:crontab
> with gid. that's fixed now and it works whether I am in the crontab
> group o
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:56:53PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you?
>
> Neithere am I.
> Have you tried deleting the /var/spool/crontabs
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:12:50AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > can someone provide their pe
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you?
> > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or
> > > perhaps some other insigh
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you?
> It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in the
> same group as the file's group.
I've got an idea. What are your per
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you?
Neithere am I.
Have you tried deleting the /var/spool/crontabs/* ?
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:27:39 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or
> > perhaps some other insight?
> >
> > A
>
>
> [06:38 PM Sat Jul [EMAI
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 09:27:39 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or
> perhaps some other insight?
>
> A
[06:38 PM Sat Jul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/cron/crontabs
# ls -al
total 12
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4
13 matches
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