Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in 
> a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading 
> to Lenny easier).  Everything seems to have gone well, except for one 
> point: Cron is not behaving well.
> [...]

See if the permissions are correct in /var/spool/cron/crontabs . The 
directory should have the permissions drwx-wx--T (root:crontab), and the 
files within should be readable and writable only to the user.

HTH