topic Re: CRON in Operating System - HP-UX

CRON

KapilRaj — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 03:53:53 GMT

could see some jobs that a user is running using cron, there is a file by userid under crontabs directory, I want to stop them. i did su to that user, crontab -e says u are not allowed to use cron command. Why ?.

kaps

Re: CRON

Animesh Chakraborty — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:18:09 GMT

Hi Kapil,
What about /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file ?is that user name included there ?

Re: CRON

KapilRaj — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:28:50 GMT

he is neither present i cron.allow /deny

kaps

Re: CRON

Animesh Chakraborty — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:00:16 GMT

Hi,
Then you must put an entry in crown.all file to be able use crontab.

How do u confirm that the user is "actually" using cron ?

Re: CRON

KapilRaj — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:16:46 GMT

could manually see a job. ie it is updating a file.

Do u mean to say that by-default all the users are restricted to use cron.

Re: CRON

Animesh Chakraborty — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 05:51:25 GMT

Yes except root.

Re: CRON

Darrell Allen — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:55:59 GMT

Hi kaps,

/var/adm/cron/log should list the jobs that are submitted via crontab files. Do you see jobs in /var/adm/cron/log from that user's crontab?

Darrell

Re: CRON

Ray Brewer — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:39:38 GMT

Have you checked to see if the user is using the "at" or "batch" command? These commands use the cron daemon to run and the same log file as cron.

Re: CRON

Ariel Bourda — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:55:42 GMT

Hi,
Check if your user is in cron.allow
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Re: CRON

Tom Maloy — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:09:13 GMT

It is quite possible that the jobs were set up to run under that user's cron, and THEN the user's permission to enter cron jobs was removed. So the cron jobs would still run, owned by that user, but that user could no longer modify the running jobs.

One way to keep users from running too many cron jobs. Just a thought...

Tom

Re: CRON

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:31:03 GMT

If the user is not allowded than it is being run by root , doing a su to that user , amy be you can check the crontab for the root ?

Manoj Srivastava

Re: CRON

KapilRaj — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:24:31 GMT

thanks lot