On 10-Oct-97 Ken Lauffenburger wrote: >Hello, > >I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user >basis. I have tried the standard
Try the non-standard: crontab -l > my.crtb vi my.crtb # or emacs or whatever #make the entries you need and exit crontab my.crtb or even: su echo "11,41 * * * * /home/mine/prog2run args" > /var/spool/crontabs/mine > > crontab -e > >... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then >when I save and quit, I get the following: > > wrote /tmp/crontab.XXXXa28090, 2 lines, 3 chars > crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1 > >... and I check and no crontab was actually created. The docs for >cron3.0pl1-38 indicate that either one or both of the files >/var/spool/cron/deny or /var/spool/cron/allow must be present for >accounts other than root to be permitted a private crontab. So I >set up both files: > >flounder:~> ls -l /var/spool/cron >total 2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Oct 9 10:46 allow >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 18 1997 crontabs >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 9 10:43 deny > >The 'allow' file contains my user name, and the 'deny' file is empty. >This doesn't seem to work either. I tried stopping and restarting >the cron daemon; this also doesn't work (haven't tried rebooting >yet, but it seems that shouldn't be necessary). > >Can anyone clue me in to the magic configuration that is necessary >here? > >Thanks. > >--ken > > > __ > Ken Lauffenburger / / __ __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / D e b i a n G N U \ \/ / > / / __ ____ __ __ \ / > / / / / / _ \ / / / / / \ > ...Look out Bill, / /___ / / / / ) // (_/ / / /\ \ > here comes... (______)(_/ (_/ (_/ \____/ (_/ \_) > ________http://www.debian.org________ > > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
