topic Re: Cron Help in Operating System - HP-UX

Cron Help

Steven Chen_1 — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:27:15 GMT

Hi,

I have cold installed hpux 11i and can't use cronjob.

cron is started, and crontab is 7555 (r-sr-sr-t). Using crontab -l I get error message as
"crontab: can't open your crontab file".

Can someone help? Very appreciated.

Steven

Re: Cron Help

harry d brown jr — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:31:40 GMT

Are you the "root" user? Does /var/adm/cron directory exist?

Re: Cron Help

Steven Chen_1 — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:35:01 GMT

Yes, as root, /var/adm/cron exists.

Re: Cron Help

A. Clay Stephenson — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:36:43 GMT

Hi Steven:

Check to see if you have a file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username
(e.g.) root;

if not, the easy anyswer is to create one:
cp /dev/null /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
chmod 400 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root

Re: Cron Help

Jon Mattatall — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:37:23 GMT

Try crontab -e
If you don't have an existing crontab file, -l won't work.

Jon

Re: Cron Help

Steven Chen_1 — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:51:18 GMT

Special thank to Clay, you're a superman.

Steven