I've installed Fedora 3 Test 2 and wanted to get my mail via fetchmail and cron. So as the non-root user (myself) i issued crontab -e, and the reply was only root can do this. Ok. su - to root and did the same, and got the same answer. There is no cron.allow or cron.deny. SELinux is disabled, its probably just me, but any suggestions are welcome. Thanx

Works for me on fc3t2 (crontab -e as non root) - but that's not how you shouls edit a crontab anyway.

create a text file called crontab.txt (or whatever) and edit that.
Then -

crontab crontab.txt

That's really the best way.
There's been a lot of updates last 24 hours - make sure you get them, they fix some stuff.
Maybe that's part of it - I haven't tried loading my crontab entries in FC3T2.

At *this* specific point in time, the repository is somewhat broken - but for me, exclusion of a few packages allowed update the rest -

yum --exclude libsoup --exclude system-config-packages --exclude evolution-data-server --exclude gaim -y update

Those updates (libsoup, evolution-data-server, gaim) have a dependency that hasn't been updated on the yum server (yet)

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btw - I wish Fedora would drop vixie-cron and go with fcron.
I think it's better - maybe not for servers, but for standard users.

Did a yum -y update (865 updates!?) , solved the problem