Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

[Chad Feller]

I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros:

from crontab(1):

       If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in 
order
       to  be  allowed  to  use this command.  If the cron.allow file 
does not
       exist but the cron.deny file does exist, then you must not be 
listed in
       the  cron.deny  file in order to use this command.  If neither of 
these
       files exists, only the super user will be allowed to use this  
command.

Let me know if gentoo adheres to that also.

Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron
> group.  Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent.  It is running.  However,
> when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER
> executed.  Not once, not ever!  It seems that the ONLY jobs that run
> are via /etc/cron*
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Tom Veldhouse


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