Crontab error

[anilezfa]

While saving crontab entry from the edit screen of crontab -e, I got the following error:
crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory.

The user exists in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

Permission of /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin

Permission of /var/spool/cron/crontabs:
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin

Please help me ...

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Check if user is listed in /var/adm/cron/cron.deny file

File permission is Ok

Sunil

[T G Manikandan]

This problem usually occurs if the setuid permissions are not available.
$ ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Jun 18 2002 /usr/bin/crontab

your permissions looks ok.

Try applying the cron patch to resolve it

if you are running 11.0

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/patchDocDisplay.do?patchId=PHCO_27141

[anilezfa]

There is no /var/adm/cron/cron.deny file and I'm running 11.11

[Sunil Sharma_1]

What permission cron.allow has ? it should be world readable.
Check for patch PHCO_26562

Sunil

[T G Manikandan]

Can you list the permission for /var/spool/cron .

all dir and files under this dir

[anilezfa]

Permission for cron.allow :
-rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin
Patch already there.

# ll /var/spool/cron
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Nov 3 23:58 atjobs
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 335 Nov 14 2000 crontab.root
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 96 Nov 3 12:07 crontabs
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Nov 4 00:05 tmp
#

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Is this problem with only one user or all user ?

What permission /var/spool/cron has ?

Sunil

[T G Manikandan]

Can you try editing the crontab using root and check!

[Sยภเl Kย๓คг]

can u try manually creating crontab file in the crontab directory.
regards
SK

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Could you check wheather cron daemon is running /usr/sbin/crom ?


Sunil

[bhavin asokan · Accepted solution]

hi,

see the following link.it says this problem can occure due to some enviornmental entry /path in your .profile

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=69854


regds,

[T G Manikandan]

$which crontab

[anilezfa]

thanks.

[Sunil Talreja]

I had the same issue.
check you environment variables
env |grep EDITOR

My EDITOR variable was set to emacs. I changed it to vi and everything worked fine.

Thanks