Re: [Sheflug] Stupid cron question

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com> writes:

    Alex> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:39:50PM +0100, Barrie Bremner
    Alex> wrote:
    >> Just out of interest, how does the system figure where to store
    >> a user's crontab?

    Alex> Compiled in, I think? Vixie cron over here, btw.

    >> I looked at /var/spool/cron/[username]

    Alex> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/[username] is wot I got.

    >> and the file is nearly the same as the file that is presented
    >> by crontab -e, except for: <snip> Why bother with the wierdly
    >> named /tmp/ file?

    Alex> Do you have permission to edit /var/spool/cron/crontabs/baz
    Alex> ?

Nope, permission is denied on the whole /var/spool/cron/ tree.

[root@flux /root]# ls -l /var/spool/
 [snip]
drwx------    2 root     root           72 Jun 19 19:35 cron
 [snip]

Yeap, the editor does modify a file in the /tmp/ directory.

Cheers.

Baz/

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