Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-97
Severity: normal
When querying the current crontab:
$ crontab -l
The message reads:
crontabs/jaalto: Permission denied
Running strace gives:
stat64("/var/spool/cron", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=72, ...}) = 0
chdir("/var/spool/cron") = 0
...
stat64("crontabs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0730, st_size=96, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/cron.allow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/cron.deny", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
...
open("crontabs/jaalto", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
SUGGESTION
Please improve error checking and messages. There are two problems in the
current message:
1) It suggests that the system has some file permission or owner -related
permission issue
2) The path name to item in question is not shown in full.
The more informative error message in this case would have been:
No crontab entry found: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/jaalto
That would have made it obvious that there is nothing to list with
"crontab -l"
Please differentiate permission problems from missing files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-3.2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 1.30.28-2 SELinux shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.63-3 exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
-- no debconf information
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
