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Re: cron / crontab different permissions
- To: Dan Gardner <Dan dot Gardner at emap dot com>
- Subject: Re: cron / crontab different permissions
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:03:09 -0400
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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?
FYI, I *did* search the archives. In particular, I read every message
found when I searched for "cron Schaap".
Thanks,
Jason
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