hey gang, I'm curious what others have for permissions on their crontab files. I am unable to edit mine as a regular user: andrew@basement:$ crontab -e crontabs/andrew: Permission denied and must do: andrew@basement:$ sudo crontab -u andrew -e according to man crontab: If the /etc/cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the /etc/cron.allow file does not exist but the /etc/cron.deny file does exist, then you must not be listed in the /etc/cron.deny file in order to use this command. If neither of these files exists, then depending on site-dependent con- figuration parameters, only the super user will be allowed to use this command, or all users will be able to use this command. For standard Debian systems, all users may use this command. I have neither /etc/cron.allow or .deny: andrew@basement:$ ls /etc | grep cron. cron.d cron.daily cron.hourly cron.monthly crontab cron.weekly cvs-cron.conf so I can only assume its a permissions issue. I must have done something with my crontab as root a long time ago and then it messed with the permissions. here is my current permissions for both the crontab files and directory andrew@basement:~$ ls -l /var/spool/cron/ total 3.0K ... drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 1.0K 2006-07-01 09:05 crontabs andrew@basement:~$ sudo ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs Password: total 2 -rw------- 1 andrew root 498 2006-07-01 09:05 andrew -rw------- 1 root root 390 2006-06-27 16:21 root can someone provide their permissions, group and owner settings or perhaps some other insight? A
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