On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote: > . >> So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions >> were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using: >> sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab >> >> But the permissions would up like so: >> -rwxr-S--x 1 root crontab 35120 Mar 6 17:16 crontab >> >> Now when trying "crontab -e", I get: >> -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied >> >> I'm guessing I messed up in setting guid, since yours is lower-case >> 's', and mine's showing upper? > > Ah, that's easy to fix :-) The uppercase "S" means that the "x" > permission underneath it is not set on, so you will also have to do > this (as root) > > chmod g+x $(which crontab) > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
I should've been able to figure that out, at least. =\ Thanks for all the help; it works now. I really appreciate it. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
