root not allowed to use crontab

[Xander D Harkness]

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:38 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> With fc3t2:
> [root at marte dl]# crontab -l
> You (root) are not allowed to use this program (crontab)
> See crontab(1) for more information
> #no cron.deny or cron.allow
> [root at marte dl]# locate cron.al
> [root at marte dl]# locate cron.de
> /usr/share/applications/kde/kcron.desktop
> [root at marte dl]# 
> 
> SELinux was disabled at install time.
> 
> There are no filled bugs in vixie-cron package.
I cannot see any thing in the changelog to say that the default
behaviour has been changed to disallow root.

If you put root in the file /etc/cron.allow, it will allow root to run
cron jobs.

Kind regards
Xander