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On Saturday 17 May 2008, King Spook wrote: |
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> "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root. |
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> "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, |
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> which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw |
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> permissions for owner only. |
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> How can I fix this? |
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> Thanks. |
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I would guess that you crontab binary is not guid: |
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alan@nazgul /var/spool $ ls -al `which crontab` |
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-rwxr-s--x 1 root crontab 30180 2007-11-02 12:59 /usr/bin/crontab* |
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The various permissions you list for files and dirs are correct - they |
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match my system which works correctly. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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