SOLVED: crontab not working

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mister_v
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SOLVED: crontab not working

Post by mister_v »

Hello,

I can't edit the user crontab file with

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crontab -e
I get the following error:

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'/var/spool/cron/crontabs' is not a directory, bailing out.
It does work for root.
and /var/spool/cron/crontabs is a directory. (only accessible by crontab and root)

The user is in group wheel. (I think it is needed for cron and sudo )
Last edited by mister_v on Sat May 09, 2015 12:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: crontab not working

Post by Chris »

Sound like your crontab program is not suid root

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 ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
 -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 36512 Dec 3 11:28 /usr/bin/crontab
you can change it with:

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chmod u+s /usr/bin/crontab 
mister_v
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Re: crontab not working

Post by mister_v »

Thanks, the solved the problem
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