nm, just read that part .. haa
King Spook wrote:
I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users.
I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of
both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but
speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty
cron.deny file in /etc.
Every time I try "crontab -e" as my user, I get this:
Code:
~~~
no crontab for user - using an empty one
crontab: installing new crontab
chown: Operation not permitted
crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.XXXXsXePXF
~~~
Naturally, I'm guessing permissions problems. Here are the permissions:
~~~
host2 spool # cd /var/spool
host2 spool # ls -alR cron/
cron/:
total 16
drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 13 16:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 crontabs
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 lastrun
cron/crontabs:
total 12
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 .
drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_vixie-cron-0
-rw------- 1 root crontab 328 Apr 27 12:25 root
cron/lastrun:
total 8
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .
drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0
host2 spool #
~~~
"crontab -e" does not error out when run as root.
"crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, which
appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions
for owner only.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
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