cron still broken- sort-of

[William John Murray]

  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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