On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 10:33:31AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:39:17PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or > > > perhaps some other insight? > > > > [06:38 PM Sat Jul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/cron/crontabs > > # ls -al > > total 12 > > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 2006-05-27 11:44 . > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2005-08-17 20:52 .. > > -rw------- 1 mito crontab 191 2005-10-06 23:33 mito > > > > > > Hope it helps! > > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in the > same group as the file's group.
The crontab executable has gid set so runs as group crontab: $ ls -l `which crontab` -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 26668 Mar 31 16:43 /usr/bin/crontab Otherwise my permissions are as above. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]