A ps to the perms msg

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 12 July 2012 13:07:22 Colin Law did opine:

> On 12 July 2012 15:40, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Greets all;
> > 
> > I just changed /var/spool/cron/crontabs/gene so its owned by me again,
> > but I am still being denied crontab -e permissions.  Probably because
> > /var/spool/cron/crontabs is also owned by root:root.  But since that
> > directory contains ALL the crontabs, I can't just willy nilly change
> > that to, so I am reduced to scratching my thinning hair and muttering
> > WTF?
> 
> On mine, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user> is owned by <user> but group
> crontab.  Try crontab for the group if you have not already done that.
>  the crontabs folder is owned by root:crontab.
> 
> Colin

Thank you, now I can edit it.  But looking in that directory, is not root 
supposed to have a system stuff file there, something to run logrotate for 
example?  Mine seems like it is the only one there. ??

Also, I am not a member of the crontab group in /etc/group.  That also 
seems strange since I am the only meat & bones composed user, with sudo 
rights on the machine.  Stranger and stranger this rootless ubuntu is 
becoming.

Cheers, Gene
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