topic Re: crontab in Operating System - HP-UX

crontab

Paul Bertino — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:04:03 GMT

I have setupa user in cron.allow and there is nor cron.deny. Still not auth to use crontab -e

Re: crontab

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:15:37 GMT

Hi Paul:

What error do you get when you do this?

Doing 'crontab -e' invokes an editor ('vi') against a temporary file in '/var/tmp' to build your crontab file if there is none to edit.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:20:56 GMT

crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.
test01@hellcat:/home/test01>

Re: crontab

rleon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:24:37 GMT

to user id has to be in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:26:40 GMT

The user id is in the cron.allow.

Re: crontab

Dennis Handly — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:05:06 GMT

>The user id is in the cron.allow.

I tried adding trailing spaces and crontab still worked.
We would need to see more info:
id
vis /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Re: crontab

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:18:45 GMT

try bouncing the cron daemon.

# /sbin/init.d/cron stop
# /sbin/init.d/cron start

# su - test01
# crontab -e

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: crontab

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:23:33 GMT

Also make sure the permissions on /usr/bin/crontab have not been altered. I've run into this error on SLES 10 when Bastille removed world read and execute.

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 79468 Feb 15 2007 /usr/bin/crontab

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:46:23 GMT

Thanks for your help. I still have the issue and I have tried everything you all have suggested.

Re: crontab

T G Manikandan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:52:12 GMT

You say you dont have cron.deny file, Can you also remove cron.allow file and try.

Thanks.

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:17:47 GMT

I have deleted the cron.allow. Tried the test user test01, no luck. Thanks

Re: crontab

T G Manikandan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:24:05 GMT

can you check if that user exists with /etc/passwd file

cat /etc/passwd|grep
and also check if there are any duplicate UID in the file.

Also try,

creating a crontab file for the user and try
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/ with the file owner as test01.

Re: crontab

T G Manikandan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:25:29 GMT

which are your cron.allow and cron.deny files located?

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:53:32 GMT

Well, the real cron.allow stand up. There are two locations on our system,
/var/spool/cron
and
/var/adm/cron = this is the correct one!

Sorry for the confusion and thanks to all of you for your help! It does work now!

Re: crontab

Paul Bertino — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:04:29 GMT

Thanks. I have the answer and it is working.