Since one week I wasn't able to use crontab by my user accounts. The message is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l You (sbellon) are not allowed to use this program (crontab) See crontab(1) for more information The man page states, that when neither cron.allow nor cron.deny are present, then the site-default of Debian is taken, which is to allow all users the usage of cron. I haven't knowingly changed anything on my system (apart from the usual apt-get upgrades) and so wonder why there is a change in behaviour now. The permissions of /usr/bin/crontab seem all right (root:crontab and -rwxr-sr-x) as do the permissions of the actual files in /var/spool/cron/crontabs (user:crontab and 600). I was able to get the users using cron again by touching an empty cron.deny file, but I'm still wondering ... The system is Debian unstable, btw. -- Stefan Bellon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
