By this time, crontab isn't usable as a regular user: imi@boborjan ~ $ crontab -e cannot chdir(/var/spool/cron), bailing out. /var/spool/cron: Permission denied imi@boborjan ~ $ ls -lad /var/spool/cron/ drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 jan 25 14.15 /var/spool/cron/ imi@boborjan ~ $ ls -lad /var/spool/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 jan 26 18.11 /var/spool/ imi@boborjan ~ $ ls -lad /var/ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 jan 26 18.23 /var/ imi@boborjan ~ $ ls -lad / drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 jan 26 20.52 / imi@boborjan ~ $ Reproducible: Always
Users who are to use cron have to be added to the cron group. This is by design.
please refer to the cron guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml please make sure that you also state which cron you are using. if you still think this is a problem, then reopen. thanks.
With vixie-cron the requirement for cron group is superflous, since is supports /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny files.
