[GRLUG] cron job an password

[Eric Beversluis]

Greg,

Three times you insultingly implied that I hadn't done the most basic
thing in Linux, which is check permissions, in addition to accusing me
of trying to obfuscate:

"If it happens, your installation/distro is broken and seriously needs
to be fixed. If *YOU* don;t understand permissions, please investigate
them."

And

"Please investigate permissions before you make more problems for
yourself. (the 10 characters at the beginning of the long listing)"

And

"Please review actual perms or attributes versus trying to obfuscate, it
works oh so much better."

If someone says, "It looks like anyone can read the various cron files,"
that to me would imply that the person does have knowledge of Linux
permissions and the problem is something different.

I'm sorry for over-reacting.

Eric

On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 16:00 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 15:37 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > Dear Folkert-jerk:
> > You ought to find out what you're talking about before calling people
> > names. I've known about permissions for years. It so happens that on
> > both my fedora 17 laptop and on the clearos server I'm working on, the
> > permissions for crontab as well as for all the various files under
> > cron.d are 644.
> > 
> > If you wanted to be helpful instead of being an *#$!@, it would have
> > been sufficient to advise me that the relevant cron files were
> > under /var/spool rather than /etc.
> 
> If you think I was be belittling you... be glad some others didn't
> respond. I treat everyone unknown to me with the same level of detail
> and examples and statements.
> 
> Please read when I write this:
> 
>         I would have responded to anyone asking this *SAME QUESTION* in
>         the same manner asking what appeared to be a lack of
>         understanding of permissions and file placement.
> 
> I'm sorry you have taken exception to this... for that I apologize. The
> very least you could do is not be offensive.
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