A ps to the perms msg

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 13 July 2012 07:11:16 Oliver Grawert did opine:

> hi,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Colin Law:
> > On 12 July 2012 18:14, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 12 July 2012 13:07:22 Colin Law did opine:
> > >> 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.
> > > 
> > > Thank you, now I can edit it.  But looking in that directory, is not
> > > root supposed to have a system stuff file there, something to run
> > > logrotate for example?  Mine seems like it is the only one there.
> > > ??
> > 
> > There is nothing in mine except the ordinary users.  I don't know how
> > it does logrotate and so on.
> 
> system crontabs are in /etc/crontab (which in turn runs the snippets
> from the /etc/cron.* directories)...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli

Good to know that ubuntu hasn't screwed with the normal 'root' stuff, thank 
you.

Cheers, Gene
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