nickel not running

[Kranti Mahmud]

Dear,

While I'm running nickel on my rp4440 server, it shows the following error message:

Nickel Revision: A.01.12b15-001

Note, the Temporary Output will go to the following Directory:
/tmp/nickel.nmssrv1

Point your favourite Web browser to that directory and
open the file index.html to see the results.

Final Archived File:
/opt/contrib/bin/nickel.nmssrv1.tar.gz

Collecting System Information...
crontab: can't open your crontab file.


What is the reason of this?

Rgds-Kranti

[Dennis Handly]

>crontab: can't open your crontab file.

Are you root? Do you even have a crontab file?

[Kapil Jha]

How are you running the script??

pretty stange it has nothing to do with crontab.

BR,
Kapil+

[Wim Rombauts]

Could it be that you need to add the user in /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow ?

What do you get if you execute "crontab -l" as the user who is running nickel ?

[Bill Hassell]

> crontab: can't open your crontab file.

Absolutely normal. You get this message when you (nickel ion this case) run the command:

crontab -l

There is no crontab entry for the current user. Since cron is the heart of automated tasks and administration, an empty crontab is considered to be a problem and is thus reported. The message comes from crontab -- nickel runs crontab -l.

[Kranti Mahmud]

Problem solved....thanks Bill Hassell.