Cron Error..

[dhanish]

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

[Clemens van Everdingen]

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.

[Deepak Extross]

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?

[dhanish]

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.

[Deepak Extross]

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?

[Trond Haugen · Accepted solution]

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

[dhanish]

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


this is my crontab detail

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi

is cron.allow is having the following permissions

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

regds
ravi

[Deepak Extross]

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

[dhanish]

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

thnks