Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
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

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Wayne
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

crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*

2010-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 are: drwx-wx--T 2 root ro

Re: crontab permissions problem on /var/spool/cron/crontabs/* - SOLVED

2010-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU