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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: strace + SUID program
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:58:06
Message-Id: 5E2A7FE4-5048-4712-964B-A3BB784ED78C@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: strace + SUID program by walt
1 On 3 Oct 2009, at 22:59, walt wrote:
2 > On 10/03/2009 02:03 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> On 3 Oct, Stroller wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> On 3 Oct 2009, at 16:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
6 >>>> ...
7 >>>> I'm still struggling with a permission problem with fcrontab.
8 >>>> On (only) one of two identical (I believe so) machines,
9 >>>> fcrontab -e (as non-root user) gives
10 >>>> Could not change egid to fcron[449]: Operation not permitted
11 >>>
12 >>> Could you post the output of `ls -ld /var/spool/fcron` for us,
13 >>> please?
14 >>>
15 >>
16 >> drwsrws--- 2 fcron fcron 4096 2009-10-03 17:57 /var/spool/fcron
17 >
18 > And that is the same as the other machine, right? ...
19
20 Sorry... I asked that because incorrect permissions on this directory
21 were (I think) the cause of the fcron problems posted in a different
22 thread a couple of days ago.
23
24 But I had not read Helmut's post properly - he had already covered
25 this matter in the statements of his original post. Sorry to have
26 wasted your time, Helmut.
27
28 Stroller.