Re: [cobalt-users] User crontab not working

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Moritz Julian Ehlenz" <mjehlenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> we recently moved some accounts from a raq3 to a
> new raq4 and are now experiencing severe problems
> with the user crontab. If I try to execute crontab -e
> as a regular user I only get "seteuid: Operation not
> permitted". I searched the archives and read to reenable
> setuid, which I did. But unfortunately that didn't fix
> it. I'd appreciate any input on this (-:

Are the users listed in /etc/cron.allow?  That file limits users permitted
to use cron.  I don't recall what error messages are displayed if the user
isn't listed there, but perhaps that's the problem.

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