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

[King Spook]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 May 2008, King Spook wrote:
> .
>> So I checked mine using, and you were right in that the permissions
>> were different.  So then I tried to make them mirror yours using:
>> sudo chmod u=rwx,g=rs,o=x /usr/bin/crontab
>>
>> But the permissions would up like so:
>> -rwxr-S--x  1 root crontab   35120 Mar  6 17:16 crontab
>>
>> Now when trying "crontab -e", I get:
>> -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied
>>
>> I'm guessing I messed up in setting guid, since yours is lower-case
>> 's', and mine's showing upper?
>
> Ah, that's easy to fix :-) The uppercase "S" means that the "x"
> permission underneath it is not set on, so you will also have to do
> this (as root)
>
> chmod g+x $(which crontab)
>
>
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>

I should've been able to figure that out, at least.  =\

Thanks for all the help; it works now.  I really appreciate it.
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