Re: crontab: Permission denied

["Monique Y. Herman" <monique@spam.bounceswoosh.org>]

On Monday, September 22 at  1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:39:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> Stock which version of Debian? The scheme has been changed in unstable,
> and the permissions match what Monique quoted. So, Monique, you should
> probably change them back before upgrading lest it confuse something.
>
> This is just a plain bug, and I see it on my laptop too. In fact, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/210838. It looks as if cron 3.0pl1-81 will fix
> it, so let's try ... yep, works for me. That package is available from
> http://incoming.debian.org/ for now, and will be installed into unstable
> proper tomorrow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Hah!  Figures that the first time in several years that I decide I need
a personal cron job (hrm, that sounds saucy!) on this machine, it would
be while the package is broken =P

Thanks much for the tip!

(Now to remember what the original settings were so I can revert ...)
-- monique