SOLVED: crontab not working

[mister_v]

Hello,

I can't edit the user crontab file with

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crontab -e

I get the following error:

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'/var/spool/cron/crontabs' is not a directory, bailing out.

It does work for root.
and /var/spool/cron/crontabs is a directory. (only accessible by crontab and root)

The user is in group wheel. (I think it is needed for cron and sudo )

[Chris]

Sound like your crontab program is not suid root

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 ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
 -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 36512 Dec 3 11:28 /usr/bin/crontab

you can change it with:

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chmod u+s /usr/bin/crontab 

[mister_v]

Thanks, the solved the problem