SUMMARY: crontab -e problem

From: <Warren.Liang_at_Marconi.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:14:04 -0800

Hello:

Many thanks to
Dr. Blinn
Mike Iglesias
Par O'Brien
Bumpus Robert
Allen Carpenter
Hugh Pritchard
Gavin Kreuiter.

The root cause is the file /usr/bin/crontab does not have setuid root
enable.

My original question was:
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I am trying to create my own cron job. I use the command crontab -e. After
save my entry, I receive the following messages:
"/tmp/aaaaaktza" 1 line, 45 characters
crontab: cannot create your crontab file in the crontab directory.

The protection of the /var/spool/cron/crontabs is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root system crontabs

We don't have the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. File
/usr/lib/cron/cron.deny does exist, but there is nothing but comments,
without any account id.

The protection setting of /usr/bin/crontab is:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/crontab
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Have a nice day.

Warren Liang
Warren.Liang_at_Marconi.com
Received on Wed Mar 28 2001 - 20:14:34 NZST

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