Need Helpl in setting the cronfile

[kumar_choudhury]

Hi,

I want set some cron files for different users. I have all the new cron files as username.new for all the users. So I want to set the new cron file using root. But
crontab [file_name] will set the cron file for current user, can you please help me setting the new cron file, login as a root"

[MarkSyder]

How about:

su - username
crontab file_name

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Ivan Krastev]

Also add users in : /var/adm/cron/cron.allow


regards,
ivan

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
rename the username.new to username into /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory.
chmod 400 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username
Add user to crontab.allow

All as root

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

I have a trick for this - but never tried this under HP-UX. Facts:
- The crontab command uses the value of the env-variable EDITOR to set a user specific editor.
- The crontab call 'crontab -e usrnam' edits the cron-entry of 'usrnam' (if called by root user).

Now use:
for cronfile in *.new
do
usrnam=${cronfile%*.new}
cat $cronfile | EDITOR=/usr/bin/tee crontab -e $usrnam
done

This will both print the content of the file to stdout and the temporary crontab-file without the need of further input.

Better perform a test with one file first ...

mfG Peter

[SANTOSH S. MHASKAR]

I think Peter Gordon's solution is most
suitable

U can do that like this as root

first add username in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

then run following

for Users in user1 user2 . . .
do
cp ${Users}.new /var/spool/cron/crontabs/${Users}
chown root:users /var/spool/cron/crontabs/${Users}
chmod 400 /var/spool/cron/crontabs/${Users}
done

thats all

-Santosh Mhaskar

[kumar_choudhury]

Thanks,

I Have some cronfiles like root, sys, adm etc, I want to replace this cronfile with my new cron file with .new as the extension. Please give me a solution for this. (I have two versions of cronfiles for different users I want to replace old version of cron with my new version of cronfile with .new as the extension)

[Peter Nikitka · Accepted solution]

Hi,

my solution will do exactly that.
For a single file use:
cat username.new | EDITOR=/usr/bin/tee crontab -e username

mfG Peter

[kumar_choudhury]

Thanks All