urgent help with Oracle cron

[Steven Chen_1]

Hi,

I manage to get system back after /usr 555 mode screw up.

I can NOT get oracle cron working. The mesage is "you are not authorized to use cron".

/usr/lib/cron is "
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 13 Mar 7 1998 cron -> /var/adm/cron"

I can not get it into 777 while it is a link.

Please help assp.

Thanks a millions.

[Wilfred Chau_1 · Accepted solution]

check your /var/adm/cron/cron.allow file.

make sure you have oracle in this file.
Otherwisw oracle can't use cron.

[Steven Chen_1]

I do have oracle in that file.

I just recovered from /usr.

So something is not right.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Steven:

Make sure you have "oracle" listed in /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

and then:

# /sbin/init.d/cron stop
# /sbin/init.d/cron start

...JRF...

[Wilfred Chau_1]

Is the premission of cron as follow?

-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 45056 Apr 11 2000 /usr/sbin/cron

[Don Bentz]

You may also want to check the contents (or existence of) the cron.deny file....

[Tony Bacon]

I recommend using an automated cross, platform scheduling tool. We had limited functionality with Cron. Currently we are using OpCon/xps. Email me if you would like to know how we are currently using this. Talk to you soon!

tbacon@epicsyscorp.com