crontab -l sh: crontab: Execute permission denied.

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Hi there. I have a problem with cron not doing anything. I had to restore on of our test environments and had to overwrite existing data. Since then cron doesnt seem to be working at all. Cron starts via init.d and the root user is in cron.allow. Have compared the settings to other machines but cant find anything different. If i try to execute crontab -l the following error comes back:sh: crontab: Execute permission denied.

Actually the only difference i found was that /usr/adm (what is linked to /var/adm) has a sticky bit at the end. But changing the permissions to 777 hasnt solved this either.

more cron.allow
root
adm
uucp
oracle
xxadmin
sched

[RAC_1]

Which user id do you use when doing crontab -l?

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Hi there. the root user

[thijs lankhorst_1]

Its OK... It seems to be connected to the CA esecure software we have running on our system.

[RAC_1]

ll `which crontab`
ll /var/adm/cron
ll -d /var/adm/cron
ll /var/spool/cron

ll -d /var/spool/cron
ll -d /var/spool/cron/crontabs

[Muthukumar_5]

Permission to crontab has to be like,

4555 root:bin

# chmod 4555 /usr/bin/crontab
# chown root:bin /usr/bin/crontab

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Muthu