topic Re: crontab errors in Operating System - HP-UX

crontab errors

marvin51796 — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:21:18 GMT

trying to do a crontab -e and i am getting this error?

$crontab -e
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unable to find library 'libgtk-x11-2.0.so'.
crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory.

its only for a specific user, works fine for other people..root..other people allowed in cron.allow....

any help would be appreciated.

Re: crontab errors

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:13:33 GMT

What editor does this user have set?

echo $EDITOR

If it is set to something like 'vim', which is not a standard part of HP-UX, then the likely problem is that you are missing the library that is required by vim.

Set the editor for this user to 'vi'

export EDITOR=vi

and have them try the 'crontab -e' command again. I bet it will work.

Re: crontab errors

marvin51796 — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:52:02 GMT

this was due to a special editor EPIC made us load not being loaded.

Sorry for wasting time but thanks..