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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 22 December 2007 19:43:50 Jerry Houston wrote:
> (1) SHOULD I be able to run crontab as a standard user?  Do I need to
> add my user account to a specific group in order to be able to do that?

Yes you should. If you run crontab -e as a normal user, it should let you edit 
the crontab for that user

I suspect you have set your system's security level to paranoid or something, 
which has removed the suid bit from crontab. Could that be correct?

> (2) Should I forget about the scheduling that YaST supposedly provides,
> and just schedule the backups with tar using crontab from the root
> account?  (I haven't used tar before -- hopefully there are options to
> tell it to keep three generations.)
>
> (3) Should a bug be reported for YaST (for not actually scheduling the
> backups), or is it not really expected to do that?

It should put something in /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily 
and/or /etc/cron.weekly. It won't put anything in root's personal crontab

Anders

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