creation of scheduled cron job assigns wrong user:group

Submitted by pieterG on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 02:58

Please check https://www.virtualmin.com/node/55678 It seems that on the creation of a scheduled cron job, the wrong user and group are assigned.

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 19:34

Was this a cron job created by Virtualmin as part of the installation of Nextcloud?

Also, did the domain perhaps have it's name or login changed at some point?

Submitted by pieterG on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 06:01

No, I created these scheduled cron jobs aftercreating a vhost and installing the application. nextcloud) There was already an instance running in another vhost (also nextcloud) no problems there. Also a tool that updates my dynamic IP runs fine. These were installed somewhere in November '17.

Of course some updates to webmin/virtualmin/theme did happen in the mean time (november till now)

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 02/08/2018 - 22:52

Ok, so how did you create this cron job exactly?

Submitted by pieterG on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 06:04

Sorry for a late reaction... flu is on the loose in the Netherlands...

at first I cloned a job as it was a similar one to an existing (working) one. made the appropriate changes to the command (path) and owner (execute cron job as) fiddled with the time schedule to not overlap the other ones.. that did not trigger any. then deleted that one and created one from scratch... that did not work either..

then as I wrote in https://www.virtualmin.com/comment/791979#comment-791979 it appeared the user:group and permissions where set incorrect...

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 23:48

If you SSH in as root and create a cron job with the command crontab -e -u XXX where XXX is a domain owner, does the file still get created with the wrong permissions?