Re: [Fink-devel] Anacron

[Sebastien M. <sm...@um...>]

On May 23, 2006, at 4:03 PM, Brendan Cully wrote:

> On Tuesday, 23 May 2006 at 14:15, Sebastien Maret wrote:
>> I think that the /sw/var/spool/anacron directory created by the=20
>> anacron
>> package should be writable to all user. Right now it is only writable
>> by the root user, so anacron does not work for non-root users.
>>
>> % anacron -d
>> Anacron 2.3 started on 2006-05-23
>> anacron: Can't open timestamp file for job cron.daily: Permission=20
>> denied
>> anacron: Aborted
>
> Don't you already have to be root to add anacron jobs?

No. A non-root user can create a anacrontab file in is own directory an=20=

run anacron with the -t option.

S=E9bastien