* Ron OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> [17-10/31=Tu 19:11 -0300]: >> [...] Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab [...] >> under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano [...]
* deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> [17-11/01=We 09:23 +0100]: > [...] OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs root access. It seems more likely that he was talking about running crontab(1), the command, rather than editing </etc/crontab>. Ordinary users can run 'crontab -e' to edit their own <~/.crontab>s without needing root access, as long as permitted by any cron.{allow,deny} files (which, if extant, are in /etc on Debian, but in /usr/lib/cron in the 2003 POSIX manual, and in an "implementation defined" location in the 2008 POSIX manual).