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crontab stopped working for end-users

End-users are not able to create/add cron jobs. The error message is:

myserver# crontab -e
cron/secure: Permission denied

Check permissions on /usr/bin/crontab Make sure the SUID bit is set.

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 313052 Sep 8 2006 /usr/bin/crontab*

If this isn't set, run the command below to set it

chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab
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Posted: 02 Oct, 2007 by: Customer Service S.
Updated: 07 Mar, 2011 by: Customer Service S.

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