crontab

[Derek Broughton]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 20 November 2009, Ian L. Target wrote:

>>>When in konsole, I get the same error message:
>>>
>>>You (ian) or not allowed to use this program (crontab)
>>>
>> Damn!  What ID10T made that decision?  Dumb.
>> 
> Why would you jump to the conclusion that some IDIOT made any decision.
> When _I_ run the crontab command it works fine.  Which suggests to me that
> either: somebody used sudo in the wrong place and wrote a file that he
> can't read as a less privileged user, or there's a /etc/cron.allow file
> (which, if empty, will prevent users from using crontab) but that's not a
> default Ubuntu file.

btw, "apt-file search" doesn't show /etc/cron.allow to be provided in any 
Ubuntu package.
-- 
derek