[plug] Crontab??

[James Devenish]

In message <d12e5c904072705132047ee at mail.gmail.com>
on Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:13:10PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> I get the following when i try to crontab as a user:
> senectus at one-eye senectus $ crontab -l
> -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied

Are you using Mandrake? Perhaps there is a bug filed against this in Mandrake's
tracking system (I'm just guessing). Alternatively, perhaps there's a problem
with your computer for some reason. What does `ls` tell you about permissions?
E.g.:

% ls -ld /usr/bin/crontab
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        22460 Oct  1  2001 /usr/bin/crontab
% ls -ld /usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        31744 Jul 21 11:57 /usr/bin/
% ls -ld /usr/
drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         1024 Apr  7  2002 /usr/