On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:43:50 Jerry Houston wrote: > (1) SHOULD I be able to run crontab as a standard user? Do I need to > add my user account to a specific group in order to be able to do that?
Yes you should. If you run crontab -e as a normal user, it should let you edit the crontab for that user I suspect you have set your system's security level to paranoid or something, which has removed the suid bit from crontab. Could that be correct? > (2) Should I forget about the scheduling that YaST supposedly provides, > and just schedule the backups with tar using crontab from the root > account? (I haven't used tar before -- hopefully there are options to > tell it to keep three generations.) > > (3) Should a bug be reported for YaST (for not actually scheduling the > backups), or is it not really expected to do that? It should put something in /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily and/or /etc/cron.weekly. It won't put anything in root's personal crontab Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
