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Re: cron / crontab different permissions
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:03:09AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Dan Gardner wrote:
>> When ever I use crontab to change a users crontab, it alters the
>> /var/cron/tabs<username> file.
>> But it does not set the correct permissions on the file so when cron tries;
>> it fails logging the following error:
>>
>> CAN'T OPEN (tabs/<username>)
>>
>> Why is this?
>
>Following the instructions in:
>
> /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README
>
>I'm running into the same problem.
>
>After running crontab -e, I have the following:
>
> $ find /var/cron -ls
> 727000 0 drwxrwxrwt 3 jt None 0 Sep 19 09:17 /var/cron
> 989696 0 drwxrwxrwt 2 jt None 0 Sep 19 09:18 /var/cron/tabs
> 7935873 1 -rw------- 1 jt None 282 Sep 19 09:18 /var/cron/tabs/jt
>
>Since cron is running under the SYSTEM account, it is clear why it cannot
>read my crontab.
>
>My temporary workaround is the following:
>
> $ chmod +r /var/cron/tabs/jt
>
>which must be re-executed after every crontab -e.
>
>What are Dan and I missing?
Standard answer #1: Inspection of the cron source, maybe?
cgf
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