Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday, 5 February 2007 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As I recall, if admin leaves a blank /etc/cron.deny and no >> /etc/cron.allow then all users will have access to cron. >> >> That isn't working for me in one isolated case (a gentoo install >> inside a windows vm). >> >> What else can cause this behavior? >> I've looked at permissions on /var/spool/cron, subdir, and files. >> They match my other installations where users can access cron. >> >> I use the tried and true vixie-cron. > > Are your users in the 'cron' group?
[...] > I had to add users that needed access to cron to the group cron. I am > also using vixie-cron. Gack... now it comes back.. Thank you. That fact should be mentioned in man(5) crontab. -- [email protected] mailing list
