Re: crontab under user not working

You should check if the suid bit is set for /usr/bin/crontab and it is owned
by root. If so, crontab -e should have no difficulties accessing
directories.

"houghi" <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:slrnfuivt5.6ig.houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had a HD problem. When I wanted to do a crontab -e, I got the
following. Any ideas?

/var/spool]
houghi@penne : crontab -e
cannot chdir(/var/spool/cron), bailing out.
/var/spool/cron: Permission denied
[/var/spool]
houghi@penne : l
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2007-12-16 15:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2007-10-06 10:35 ../
drwx------ 2 vscan root 4096 2008-02-13 15:33 amavis/
drwx------ 2 at at 4096 2007-10-06 10:47 atjobs/
drwx------ 2 at at 4096 2007-09-22 01:43 atspool/
drwxrwx--- 2 mail mail 4096 2007-09-22 00:04 clientmqueue/
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 2007-10-06 10:47 cron/

Sure I could chmod a lot, but would that be good? What is the standard?

houghi
--
The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that
grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak.
-- Robert A. Heinlein in "The Man Who Sold the Moon"


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