hi, I am not able to edit my crontab file. The user name is available in crontab.allow file and crontab.deny file is not there. I am able to edit my user crontab when I login as as root using command crontab -e But when I try editing it ( when I am logged in as user) I am getting error message as crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory I even changed permission of the directory and the crontab file ( giving full permission ) still it is showing the error. Can you throw some light on this.......
normally it should work when you've added the user in /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow Maybe the rights of /var/tmp are not set to 777 so that would cause the problem
Set permission 777 for /var/tmp and it should work
First make sure "/usr/lib/cron/cron.allow" contains "user" and remove cron.deny
0. log in as root and remove that crontab file of user "user". 1. log in as user ( i will assume username as "user" ) 2. Then $ crontab -e user edit the file as per the requirement and then save. 3. See if you have valid entries in crontab by " $ crontab -l user "
This works. Regards,
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Make sure the setuid bit is still on your crontab command. Here the ls -l line looks like this: -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 28672 Feb 18 1999 /usr/bin/crontab
The rights on the crontabs directory should be this: dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 1024 Aug 29 17:30 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
Good luck,
Elmar
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hi , I had changed the rights of /var/tmp to 777 still its showing the error message crontab: can't create your crontab file in the crontab directory. When I manually copied that file from /var/tmp to crontab directory its getting coppied........ But when I edit the file using crontab -e is not getting copied.
i don't think the problem lies in the cron.allow file because then another error (like: you're not authorized ...) would come up. But when i change my rights of /var/tmp to 755 the error mentioned by you (can't create ...) is coming up - when i change it back to 777 it works !
hi muthukumar, When I try copying the file to my crontab , i.e crontab I am getting the following error crontab: error in message queue open, errno=13 What is this error? how do I correct it??
Hi all, Thanx for you support. I could solve it by changing the permission of /usr/bin/crontab binary( chmod u=rs,go=rx,o=rx) and the /var/spool/cron/crontabs ( chmod u=rx,go=rx,o=rx) Regards Kiran
