Nevermind.  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wasn't part of the cron group.  I should have
thought of that before I sent my email.  I apologize...

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 08:56 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I wanted to enter some stuff into crontab in my personal account on my
> server box.  I entered "crontab -e" and got the error:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ crontab -e
> -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
> -rws--x---  1 root cron 9896 Feb 26 02:16 /usr/bin/crontab
> 
> I did ls -l on /usr/bin/crontab on my personal computer and got the same
> output:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
> -rws--x---  1 root cron 10756 Apr 13 16:22 /usr/bin/crontab
> 
> 
> but I can edit my crontab on my personal computer.  How would I fix
> this?  I can't even tell what's wrong with it, why I can use crontab on
> baby but not on bullet....

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