crontab issue

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:

[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:43am] 416 % lltr
total 136
-rw-------  1 wam  users   5796 Nov 10  2011 .crontab
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users    166 Sep 29  2014 .shrc
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users   1516 Sep 29  2014 .profile
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users    265 Sep 29  2014 .logout
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 16 08:24 .ssh/
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users   1923 Jul 17 08:22 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users    694 Jul 19 11:11 .login
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 20 08:15 misc/
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 20 08:15 pub/
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 20 08:15 lib/
-rw-r--r--  1 wam  users   1044 Jul 20 10:36 .Usual
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 20 14:22 work/
-rw-------  1 wam  users  11119 Jul 22 08:17 .history
drwxr-xr-x  2 wam  users    512 Jul 24 10:52 bin/
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:46am] 417 % ll /var/cron/
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    4 Jul 24 11:00 allow
drwx------  2 root  wheel  512 Jul  1 01:29 tabs/
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:52am] 418 % crontab -u wam .crontab
crontab: must be privileged to use -u
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:22:16am] 419 % cat /var/cron/allow
wam
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:24:18am] 420 %

The man page implies that users have access to set their crontab files 
by default under NetBSD. My user 'wam' is in the wheel group. What am I 
doing wrong here ? TIA & have a nice weekend.


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