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It is the same tab that was running on 16.04. I have web searched the
issue, and reported to the Mate forum, without solution. I am not a
newbie, I know about permissions, and I have tried everything. My user
account is added to the crontab group. The file in
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user> has the correct permissions.
** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Crontab fails with 'Permission denied'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773660
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