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

Regarding Cron

nandam — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:28:57 GMT

Hi, could you please tell me how to give cron access to user. i applied login name in /var/spool/cron/crontab but i am geting error like this

crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.

Could you please give me answer for this IT IS VERY URGENT

tHANKS

Re: Regarding Cron

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:33:33 GMT

add the username to the file
/var/adm/cron/cron.allow

I like to do:

echo "username" >> /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

if they are likely to run at jobs, you might want to add them to the at.allow as well (same location)

Good luck.

Kofi

Re: Regarding Cron

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:36:17 GMT

Hi:

The manpages for 'crontab(1)' hold the answer to your question.

You need to add the user to '/var/adm/cron/cron.allow'.

You may also want to enable 'at()' use for the user, too. Correspondingly, see those manpages!

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Regarding Cron

nandam — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:47:12 GMT

Thank you very much i got answer

thanks
nandam

Re: Regarding Cron

Jonathan Fife — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:12:18 GMT

Hi nandam,

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Thanks!