On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:30:01AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > Package: cron > Version: 3.0pl1-97 > Severity: normal > > When querying the current crontab: > > $ crontab -l > > The message reads: > > crontabs/jaalto: Permission denied
Are you sure /var/spool/cron/crontabs/jaalto does not exist? Are your permissions for /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ are correct? Running crontab -l in a user without crontabs it will say "no contrab for XXX". Could you please provide the output of running (as root): - ls -lR /var/spool/cron/ - ls -la `which crontab` That way I can verify if your installation is correct. > Please improve error checking and messages. There are two problems in the > current message: > > 1) It suggests that the system has some file permission or owner -related > permission issue I do believe that is the case, if the file does not exist crontab generates a different message. > 2) The path name to item in question is not shown in full. That is a bug, albeit a minor one. > Please differentiate permission problems from missing files. Crontab already does that, this certainly looks like a permission problem to me but with additional information I cannot tell for sure.
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