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cannot access /var/spool/cron/crontabs: Permission denied
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:09 pm
by mister_v
I can not edit my cronfile anymore.
I get the following error message.
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cannot access /var/spool/cron/crontabs: Permission denied
As root it is possible.
Re: cannot access /var/spool/cron/crontabs: Permission denied
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:26 pm
by chris
There can be several reasons:
check that the group crontab has all the necessary rights
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chown root:crontab /usr/bin/crontab
chmod g+s /usr/bin/crontab
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chown root:crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs
chmod u=rwx,g=wx,o=t /var/spool/cron/crontabs
Re: cannot access /var/spool/cron/crontabs: Permission denied
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:15 pm
by mister_v
Thanks.
I found the problem:
The usergroup of /var/spool/cron
was set to cron instead of crontab.
I don't know how this happened?
Perhaps with and update of cron?