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Hi,
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:48:20PM -0300, Facundo Aguirre wrote:

>> In section "9.5.14. Scheduling tasks regularly" it says that if you are 
>> a member of crontab group, you can schedule to run processes as a normal 

Le 14/10/2011 23:54, Osamu Aoki a écrit :
> $ sudo ls -la crontabs 
> total 12
> drwx-wx--T 2 root  crontab 4096 Sep 18 14:57 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root  root    4096 Sep 14 08:17 ..
> -rw------- 1 osamu crontab 1141 Sep 18 14:57 osamu
> 
> If you are not, you can not have priviridge to edit "osamu" file in
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs. ("osamu" is for my case on my system.)

You not, but crontab can:

$ ls -la /usr/bin/crontab
- -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 34048 sept. 18 17:21 /usr/bin/crontab

That's the reason why it's setgid crontab actually, to prevent the user
to edit directly /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user>, and force him to use
the “crontab -e” command, as explained in the FILES section of crontab(5).

Regards

David

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