A ps to the perms msg

[Colin Law]

On 12 July 2012 15:40, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Greets all;
>
> I just changed /var/spool/cron/crontabs/gene so its owned by me again, but
> I am still being denied crontab -e permissions.  Probably because
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs is also owned by root:root.  But since that
> directory contains ALL the crontabs, I can't just willy nilly change that
> to, so I am reduced to scratching my thinning hair and muttering WTF?

On mine, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user> is owned by <user> but group
crontab.  Try crontab for the group if you have not already done that.
 the crontabs folder is owned by root:crontab.

Colin