Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Why can't my user run crontab? > > The system-wide cron is working fine; any cron-related files in /etc do > their jobs. But every time I try to use the 'crontab' command as a > normal user, I get nastiness: > > crontab -e > crontabs/monique: Permission denied > [...] > crontabs/tmp.WAJKya: Permission denied > [...] > My permissions for /var/spool/cron/crontabs : > drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4.0K Sep 21 13:17 cron/crontabs/ What does this say for you? Stock Debian: ll /usr/bin/crontab -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 22460 Oct 1 2001 /usr/bin/crontab ll -d /var/spool/cron/crontabs drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 08:44 /var/spool/cron/crontabs Bob
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