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Permission on “/usr/bin/crontab” are wrong (4755). Please set to 4755.

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  1. Lou

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    As the title states I am getting the error:
    Permission on “/usr/bin/crontab” are wrong (4755). Please set to 4755.

    This only shows us when using the x3 theme on my cpanel. When I use the paper lantern I get the following error when I try to set an email or create a cronjob:

    Insecure dependency in require while running setuid.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

    This issue is very weird since the 4755 is obviously already set per the first error message.

    Any help would be awesome.
     
    #1 Lou, Aug 13, 2015
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    Hello :)

    Do you notice any additional error messages in /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log when this occurs?

    Thank you.
     
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    The only errors in that log are similar to this:

    warn [Cron::set_email] Encountered error in Cron::set_email: Insecure dependency in require while running setuid.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

    warn [Cron::add_line] Encountered error in Cron::add_line: Insecure dependency in require while running setuid.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

    info [cpanel] Permissions check for /usr/bin/crontab failed. Not executable. Unable to use user cronjobs via cPanel.
    Insecure dependency in require while running setuid.
    BEGIN failed--comilation aborted.
     
    #3 Lou, Aug 13, 2015
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    It's possible this is related to an internal case opened for cron jobs on certain versions of cPanel and certain operating systems. Please post the output from:

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    cat /usr/local/cpanel/version
cat /etc/redhat-release
    Thank you.
     
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    cat /usr/local/cpanel/version
    11.50.0.29

    cat /etc/redhat-release
    CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
     
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    Internal case CPANEL-376 is open to address an issue where crontab on CentOS 7 will not work if a user renamed /usr/bin/crontab.relink.# (ex: /usr/bin/crontab.relink.1437150286) to something such as /usr/bin/crontab.relink.disabled. Could you post the output from the following command to see if that's the case on this system:

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    ls -al /usr/bin|grep crontab
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    ls -al /usr/bin|grep crontab
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 39 Aug 2 23:16 crontab -> /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab*
    -rwsr-xrx. 1 root root 57536 Jul 30 2014 crontab.relink.1438571809*
     
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    To clarify, could you check the permissions of the /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab file? EX:

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    stat /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab
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    Code:
    stat /usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab
  File: ‘/usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab’
  Size: 3973629         Blocks: 7768       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 70923892    Links: 1
Access: (4755/-rwsr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Context: unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0
Access: 2015-08-13 05:03:47.090373863 -0400
Modify: 2015-08-02 22:48:17.718002781 -0400
Change: 2015-08-13 05:03:41.856373260 -0400
 Birth: -
     
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    Could you open a support ticket using the link in my signature so we can take a closer look? You can post the ticket number here so we can update this thread with the outcome.

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    Support Request Id 7026953
     
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    and issue was resolved. your ticket system is a little cumbersome, but the guys working the tickets are very knowledgeable and quick to the fix.
     
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    Lou, glad I was able to help, the issue just so everyone is aware was that "/
    usr/local/cpanel/bin/jail_safe_crontab" was set to 4755 when it should be set to 755 it does not need nor allow the setuid bit.
     
    #13 TerranceR, Aug 19, 2015
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