A ps to the perms msg

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> On 12 July 2012 18:14, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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. ??
> 
> There is nothing in mine except the ordinary users.  I don't know how
> it does logrotate and so on.

system crontabs are in /etc/crontab (which in turn runs the snippets
from the /etc/cron.* directories)...

ciao
	oli
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