Unabble to start crontab service on HPUX

[Rohit Nagare]

Hi friends,

I am haveing HPUX 11i
i am trying to set crontab on the same.
But when i give the command as
# /sbin/init.d/cron start
cron started
# ! can't change directory to the crontab directory. Wed Feb 24 17:55:22 IST 2010
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******** Wed Feb 24 17:55:22 IST 2010

i get the error cron aborted

Thakns in advance
Rohit

[Jupinder Bedi]

check your cd /var/spool/cron directory

and than ls -la

someting should be there . its not than you need to recover it from the backup

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

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[Johnson Punniyalingam]

Check below thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1039059

[Rohit Nagare]

Hi Jupinder,
I have checked there is no cron dir in /var/spool