topic Re: unable to edit crontab in Operating System - HP-UX

unable to edit crontab

jeevarajkn — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:40 GMT

Hi Guru,s

OS-HP UX 11.23

Getting error while executing crontab -e command for root also.Its not working for any of the user.

crontab -e
crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory.

I checked /var/adm/cron/cron.allow files and semms ok.

/var/spool/cron/crontabs>ll
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dba 220 Mar 15 22:22 bkpadm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dba 425 May 12 17:29 oracle
-r-------- 1 root sys 434 May 26 11:40 root

ls -ld crontabs
drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 May 26 11:47 crontabs

please help me to resolve the issue

Re: unable to edit crontab

Michal Kapalka (mikap) — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:04:52 GMT

Hi

check this link :

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1292920

mikap

Re: unable to edit crontab

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:12:06 GMT

Shalom,

Most likely cause of not being able to create the file is the path does not exist.

pwd in the crontabs directory.

The locatoin looks good.

Can you post cron.allow so we can diagnose?

SEP

Re: unable to edit crontab

SoorajCleris — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:24:13 GMT

It seems your EDITOR variable is not set properly .. Please check

#echo $EDITOR

if it is not vi

#export EDITOR=vi

Please let me know the progress

Re: unable to edit crontab

jeevarajkn — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:46:35 GMT

Hi All
Pleadse find the required output

UAEMFQDDCBDBD01:/var/spool/cron/crontabs>ls -lrt
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dba 220 Mar 15 22:22 bkpadm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root dba 425 May 12 17:29 oracle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 434 May 26 11:40 root

UAEMFQDDCBDBD01:/var/adm/cron>cat cron.allow
root
adm
uucp
oracle
bkpadm

no cron.deny file

UAEMFQDDCBDBD01:/var/adm/cron>echo $EDITOR
vi

Re: unable to edit crontab

Dennis Handly — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:56:09 GMT

The link that mikap gave points to my reply where the user has messed up the permission of crontab, SETUID root. What is yours?
You may have to use "swverify \*" to see what else is broken.

Re: unable to edit crontab

Suraj K Sankari — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:12:15 GMT

Hi,
>>no cron.deny file

If cron.allow is exist and cron.deny is not exist then all the user present cron.allow then all users listed in the cron.allow file can use cron.

>>crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory.
this means you are not login as root or the user you have login is not having the permission to edit crontab.

login as a root and then try

Suraj