I can't operate crontab

Hello,

I can't operate crontab. Regarding to linux's situation, Crond is working
withour any errors, there is no cron.allow and cron.deny file. And grammar
is correct to set the crontab.

Do you know why crontab is not working ? Is there some more file concerned
with crontab ?

Thank you.


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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:01:40 +0900, jwhan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't operate crontab. Regarding to linux's situation, Crond is working
> withour any errors, there is no cron.allow and cron.deny file. And grammar
> is correct to set the crontab.
>
> Do you know why crontab is not working ? Is there some more file concerned
> with crontab ?

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Always provide distro and release level when posting. Helps you get
better answers.

Without see that crontab entry/script which is not working any error
messages sent via mail or /var/log/messages there is a pretty slim
hope of solving your problem.

These two config files, might be /etc/cron.deny and /etc/cron.allow
specify who are allowed to use crontab.

You have to enter the specific users in one per line in ../cron.allow
file who can submit jobs to crontab.

then run

$crontab -l -u username

hth

raqueeb hassan
bangladesh

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:01:40 +0900, jwhan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can't operate crontab. Regarding to linux's situation, Crond is working
> withour any errors, there is no cron.allow and cron.deny file. And grammar
> is correct to set the crontab.
>
> Do you know why crontab is not working ? Is there some more file concerned
> with crontab ?

Are you saying that "crontab -e" does not work, or that what you enter
from there does not work? The environment is minimal, so use full paths
for programs and files.

Some people confuse the syntax of periodic cron files (cron.hourly, etc.)
with user crontabs (which are different). If you are able to do "crontab
-e", give an example of an entry that does not work. If your local mail
system was working, crond would usually e-mail you about any errors.

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On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:21:11 -0700, Raqueeb Hassan wrote:

> These two config files, might be /etc/cron.deny and /etc/cron.allow
> specify who are allowed to use crontab.
>
> You have to enter the specific users in one per line in ../cron.allow
> file who can submit jobs to crontab.

The actual rules are a bit more complicated. Check "man crontab". I would
suggest using /var/spool/cron/deny instead, and making sure your desired
user(s) are NOT in there. My SuSE 8.2 system installed with this deny file
containing "guest" and "gast". I'm not sure what happens if you have both
an allow and deny file? Is crontab smart enough to combine both conditions?

> then run
>
> $crontab -l -u username

Yes, running this as root will show you the given username's crontab.
Running as a normal user, you would run "crontab -l" to see your own.

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