cron still broken- sort-of

[William John Murray]

> On Sep 28, 2004 at 12:05, William John Murray in a soothing rage wrote:
> 
> >  Hello there,
> >               Any ideas how to get cron working?
> >
> >I previously reported that doing 'touch /etc/cron.deny' as root
> >changed an error from crontab of of 'not allowed to use this program' 
> >into 'cron/tmp.XXXXTBxTOG: Permission denied'. 
> >  I have now found this 'cron' is in /var/spool/cron. I tried giving
> >my user write access to /var/spool/cron, or even 'chown' but
> >then I get 'chown: Operation not permitted' from the crontab command.
> >
> >  So I tried copying the 'crontab' executable from my FC2 setup,
> >and that works just fine.
> >   Not really a solution, but maybe it sheds some light?
> >        Bill
> First read 'man 1 crontab'. That lists what is needed to get
> users to be able to use cron. Second reinstall the crontab
> rpm again.
> 
> N.Emile...
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Hi 'N.Emile',
          I have been trying to read 'man 1 crontab'. Probably I missed
something, but it seems to me that the followinf SHOULD work, and does
not:

root>echo auser >> /etc/cron.allow

auser> crontab some-file

This gives the above Permsission denied. Can you please advise?
   Bill