On Monday 02 April 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 2 April 2007 16:49, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > moriah ~ # crontab -e > > > 22:05:13 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: Permission > > > denied moriah ~ # > > > > > > BillK > > > > You HAVE to do that as root > > The # character in the prompt usually indicates a root shell...so I > guess the OP was already issuing those commands as root.
doh! /me whacks self on head with a clue by 4 .... The OP has an interesting problem here, as root can cd into any directory even if all permissions are removed. Bill, a bit of a shot in the dark here, but what's the output from 'ls -al /var/spool/cron/'? And are you running a hardened profile using selinux? alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
