Re: Cron & At Permissions

[Andras BALI <bali@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:

> When my system boots and when I try to create an `at` job, I see
> `at` permission errors. I am running the latest potato.

> Here is what I have. Is this wrong?

Yes. The /var/spool/cron directory should be 0755.

$ ls -l /var/spool/cron
total 5
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Aug  5  1998 .
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root         1024 Oct 28 01:31 ..
drwx------    2 daemon   daemon       1024 Nov 12 06:55 atjobs
drwx------    2 daemon   daemon       1024 Nov 12 06:55 atspool
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 May 31  2000 crontabs
$

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