You type: crontab -e You get: -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied Problem: Your user is not in the cron group. Solution: As root, edit the /etc/group file, find the cron group and add your user to that line (the usernames are comma-separated). Then re-login as your user. Verify: Run command "groups". You should see "cron" in there. vim: set ts=8: