CRON

[KapilRaj]

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

[Animesh Chakraborty]

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

[KapilRaj]

he is neither present i cron.allow /deny

kaps

[Animesh Chakraborty]

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 ?

[KapilRaj]

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.

[Animesh Chakraborty · Accepted solution]

Yes except root.

[Darrell Allen]

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

[Ray Brewer]

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.

[Ariel Bourda]

Hi,
Check if your user is in cron.allow
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[Tom Maloy]

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

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

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

[KapilRaj]

thanks lot