Broken crontab/anacron

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 13:23 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > 
> > Have you checked /var/log/cron ?  There should be a RELOAD event logged
> > within 1 minute after any change to /etc/crontab .
> > 
> > --
> > Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net
> 
> Ah, I did not see that log file before. Maybe this will help my
> situation:
> 
> Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (CRON) STARTUP (V5.0)
> Jan 25 11:44:29 mythtv crond[25864]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
> (/etc/crontab)
> 
That seems related to the permissions of /etc/crontab.

By default it is 
[jeff at goliath ~]$ ls -l /etc/crontab
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 255 Sep 20 16:58 /etc/crontab



> James
>