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On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote: |
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> So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions |
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> were different. So then I tried to make them mirror yours using: |
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> sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab |
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> But the permissions would up like so: |
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> -rwxr-S--x 1 root crontab 35120 Mar 6 17:16 crontab |
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> Now when trying "crontab -e", I get: |
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> -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied |
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> I'm guessing I messed up in setting guid, since yours is lower-case |
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> 's', and mine's showing upper? |
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Ah, that's easy to fix :-) The uppercase "S" means that the "x" |
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permission underneath it is not set on, so you will also have to do |
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this (as root) |
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chmod g+x $(which crontab) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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