Re: [gentoo-user] non-root crontab failure (permissions issue?)

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nm, just read that part .. haa

King Spook wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users.
>
> I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of
> both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but
> speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty
> cron.deny file in /etc.
>
> Every time I try "crontab -e" as my user, I get this:
> Code:
>
> ~~~
> no crontab for user - using an empty one
> crontab: installing new crontab
> chown: Operation not permitted
> crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.XXXXsXePXF
>
> ~~~
>
> Naturally, I'm guessing permissions problems. Here are the permissions:
>
> ~~~
> host2 spool # cd /var/spool
> host2 spool # ls -alR cron/
> cron/:
> total 16
> drwxr-x--- 4 root cron    4096 Mar  6 17:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root    4096 Apr 13 16:02 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       0 Mar  6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0
> drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 crontabs
> drwxr-x--- 2 root root    4096 Mar  6 17:16 lastrun
>
> cron/crontabs:
> total 12
> drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 .
> drwxr-x--- 4 root cron    4096 Mar  6 17:16 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab    0 Mar  6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_vixie-cron-0
> -rw------- 1 root crontab  328 Apr 27 12:25 root
>
> cron/lastrun:
> total 8
> drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar  6 17:16 .
> drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar  6 17:16 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Mar  6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0
> host2 spool #
> ~~~
>
>
> "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root.
> "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, which
> appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions
> for owner only.
>
> How can I fix this?
> Thanks.
>

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