RE: crontab

["Peter Loo" <loopeter yahoo com>]

Hi Werner,

What is setuid bit?

Thanks.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Puschitz [mailto:w us verizon net]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 9:11 PM
To: Peter Loo
Cc: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: crontab



Make sure crontab is installed as root and setuid bit is set:

chown root.root /usr/bin/crontab
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab

Werner


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Peter Loo wrote:

> Can someone please tell me how I can set up crontab so that specific users
> can have access to crontab using crontab -e option?  I am getting this
> error.
>
> [~]$ crontab -e
> seteuid: Operation not permitted
> [~]$
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter Loo (Software Engineer)
> loopeter yahoo com
> www.whatcanuoffer.com
>
>


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