topic Re: Cron Error.. in Operating System - HP-UX

Cron Error..

dhanish — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:24:19 GMT

Hi,
I am facing a probelm in cron on HP .Whenever i create a cron job using crontab -e ..and whne i try to save that file it gives the following error

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

This is happening for all the users except root.I have entries of the all tyhe users in cron.alow file.I tried removing the old file using crontab -r but still the problem persists.Any clues whats happening here ...

thnks

Re: Cron Error..

Clemens van Everdingen — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:35:35 GMT

Hi,

Is the directory /var/spool/cron/crontabs existing on your system ?
And does it have the permissions
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin ?

C.

Re: Cron Error..

Deepak Extross — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:36:08 GMT

1. Do the files /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow and /usr/lib/cron/cron.deny exist? If neither of these exist, only 'root' can use crontab.

2. Do the users have permissions in /var/spool/cron/crontabs to create their crontab files?

Re: Cron Error..

dhanish — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:44:31 GMT

dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 1024 Apr 15 14:08 crontabs
Yes i have the crontab dir with the above permission and i have /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow and /var/adm/cron/cron.allow files with ths user entry in that file.I do not have cron.deny. file.

Re: Cron Error..

Deepak Extross — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:47:58 GMT

If there are any user files in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory, they should be owned by the users themselves, not by root. What does "ll /var/spool/cron/crontabs" show?

Re: Cron Error..

Trond Haugen — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:57:34 GMT

Also check if crontab is suid and owned by root:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Feb 9 2001 /usr/bin/crontab

Regards,
Trond

Re: Cron Error..

dhanish — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:06:10 GMT

rwSrw-rw- 1 root bin 32768 Feb 9 2001 crontab

this is my crontab detail

Re: Cron Error..

V. V. Ravi Kumar_1 — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:06:11 GMT

hi

is cron.allow is having the following permissions

-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin

regds
ravi

Re: Cron Error..

Deepak Extross — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:12:10 GMT

From the error message, it sounds like you dont have write permissions on the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ file.

Re: Cron Error..

dhanish — Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:32:10 GMT

Thnks Trond ..i was having problem in my set uid permissions.

thnks