On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 10:33:31 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > > > hmm... that doesn't do it., but I'm not in the crontab group, are you? > > It seems strange that a file would have an owner that is not in the > > same group as the file's group. > > I've got an idea. What are your permissions on /tmp ? That's there a > file gets created when you issue crontab -e. good thought: andrew@basement:/var/spool/cron$ ls -al /tmp total 20K drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 280 2006-07-01 11:26 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4.0K 2006-06-21 13:53 .. drwx------ 3 andrew andrew 60 2006-07-01 11:08 gconfd-andrew drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 60 2006-06-30 18:25 gpg-89eV9I drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 60 2006-06-30 18:25 gpg-FZpbiN drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 60 2006-06-30 18:25 gpg-Kk0Lez drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 2006-06-30 18:25 .ICE-unix drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 80 2006-07-01 11:08 orbit-andrew drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 60 2006-06-30 18:25 ssh-dHwHnb4222 drwx------ 2 andrew andrew 60 2006-06-30 18:25 ssh-Idrdpv4222 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 2006-06-30 18:25 .X0-lock drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 60 2006-06-30 18:25 .X11-unix -rw------- 1 andrew andrew 207 2006-06-30 18:25 .xfsm-ICE-t5MJNT -rw------- 1 andrew andrew 4.3K 2006-07-01 09:20 zmanl3vHqv andrew@basement:/var/spool/cron$ ls -al / | grep tmp drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 280 2006-07-01 11:26 tmp that looks okay to me, but I'm not sure. I've messed with /tmp in the past when there were problems with X starting (long time ago) and it was a permissions issue with /tmp. So I nuked the problem with chmod 1777 /tmp, IIRC. A
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