From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ft1e8-0008Eu-Py for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:17:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5LCCmkD009338; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:12:48 GMT Received: from gateway4.delphi.com (gateway4.delphi.com [69.220.142.16]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5LBo9qO023781 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:50:17 GMT Received: from USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.205]) by gateway4.delphi.com (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id DLX38520; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:50:00 -0400 Received: from [10.233.7.145] ([10.233.7.145]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: <44993266.7040607@mid.message-center.info> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:49:58 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem: unprivileged user cannot use /usr/bin/crontab References: <20060621113412.GA23599@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20060621113412.GA23599@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Jun 2006 11:50:00.0181 (UTC) FILETIME=[D33C4250:01C69528] X-Archives-Salt: 57dd6e84-7459-4129-8f46-50f8912230a0 X-Archives-Hash: fedbf94aef6decd2d4c263f0ee06b245 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I've just installed cron and wanted to edit an user's crontab > with "crontab -e". This didn't work: permission denied. Correct. > It is easy to fix, by "chmod ugo+s", but after an update, > the shit starts again ... No, that's not a fix. That's a break in. > Smells like a bug. How do you get that idea? It rather smells, as if you haven't done the slightest checks and it sounds as if everything is working as intended. Alexander Skwar -- Dreams are free, but there's a small charge for alterations. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list