On 5/5/06, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/5/06, Hussam Al-Tayeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> initgroups failed: hussam Operation not permitted
> unable to create /var/spool/cron/hussam.new: Permission denied
> unable to append to /var/spool/cron/cron.update
Sounds like your user doesn't have write access to /var/spool or /var/spool/cron
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Looks like the updated dcron doesn't set the suid on crontab...I just updated to test this, and now I can't use crontab as a regular user any longer...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] {/var/spool/cron} $ ll /usr/bin/crontab
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 9.9K Aug 25 2005 /usr/bin/crontab*
-- Then I did a pacman -Syu to update my system --
[EMAIL PROTECTED] {/var/spool/cron} $ ll /usr/bin/crontab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10K May 4 20:41 /usr/bin/crontab*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] {/var/spool/cron} $ crontab -e
05-May-2006 12:54 initgroups failed: joe Operation not permittedunable to create /var/spool/cron/joe.new: Permission denied
unable to append to /var/spool/cron/cron.update
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