-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: > I wanted to enter some stuff into crontab in my personal account on my > server box. I entered "crontab -e" and got the error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ crontab -e > -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied > [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab > -rws--x--- 1 root cron 9896 Feb 26 02:16 /usr/bin/crontab > > I did ls -l on /usr/bin/crontab on my personal computer and got the same > output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab > -rws--x--- 1 root cron 10756 Apr 13 16:22 /usr/bin/crontab > > > but I can edit my crontab on my personal computer. How would I fix > this? I can't even tell what's wrong with it, why I can use crontab on > baby but not on bullet.... > Check your groups ... probably michael on baby is in the group cron and on bullet he's not. Fix: as root, edit /etc/group and add michael to the line beginning with cron. Then log off (if you edited via su / sudo) and log in as michael again. That should do the trick.
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