how to enable the crontab for user in hpux

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

change the following the user .profile

export EDITOR = vi

to

export EDITOR=vi

no spaces

Robert-Jan

[Pete Randall]

Better yet, don't bother editing ANY profiles. Just log in as John and type

export EDITOR=vi
crontab -e

and see what happens.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And post the following, please:

ll /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow

- and/or -

ll /var/adm/cron/cron.allow


Pete

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Is the system trusted?

I remember, long ago running into a problem adding oracle to cron allow user list on a trusted system.

Had to run through a special procedure to fix it.

Though I recall betting a pretty specific error message which we are not seeing here.

As user John:

env > /tmp/john.env.txt

Take a look there.

It is possible but not advisable as root to directly edit the cron schedules in /var/spool/cron/crontabs

See what if anything is there.

SEP

[senthil_kumar_2]

Now it is working fine after changing as follows

export EDITOR = vi

to

export EDITOR=vi

no spaces

[Bill Hassell]

The EDITOR variable is probably being overridden in the user's profile (~john/.profile or worse, ~john/.cshrc). Type this one-line command exactly as shown (no extra semicolons or other junk):

sh EDITOR=vi crontab -e

and it will work OK even if the user is running the scummy csh shell.

NOTE: drwxrwxrwx is a severe security risk for your system. Someone tried to fix a problem by compromising the security of every cron job with 777 permissions. The correct permission is 555 owned by bin:bin.