FS#4570 - dcron 3.1: users cannot run crontab

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Vinay S Shastry (shastry) - Friday, 05 May 2006, 05:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

after updating to new dcron (3.1-1), I am unable to run crontab as user
crontab -e
05-May-2006 10:59 initgroups failed: vinay Operation not permittedunable to create /var/spool/cron/vinay.new: Permission denied
unable to append to /var/spool/cron/cron.update


crontab doesnt have suid bit turned on. Do you think this is the cause for this issue ?
$ ll `which crontab`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10144 2006-05-05 07:11 /usr/bin/crontab
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Friday, 05 May 2006, 17:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in 3.1-2

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