cron still broken- sort-of
William John Murray
w.murray at rl.ac.uk
Tue Sep 28 11:05:24 UTC 2004
Hello there,
Any ideas how to get cron working?
I previously reported that doing 'touch /etc/cron.deny' as root
changed an error from crontab of of 'not allowed to use this program'
into 'cron/tmp.XXXXTBxTOG: Permission denied'.
I have now found this 'cron' is in /var/spool/cron. I tried giving
my user write access to /var/spool/cron, or even 'chown' but
then I get 'chown: Operation not permitted' from the crontab command.
So I tried copying the 'crontab' executable from my FC2 setup,
and that works just fine.
Not really a solution, but maybe it sheds some light?
Bill
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