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# 1  
Old 12-14-2010
Assign crontab for user
hi,

how can i assign a crontab to my username "user1", here is my current list details;
Code:
$ who
root       console      Nov 15 14:38
user1     pts/1        Dec 14 21:07    (192.168.1.75)

$ pwd
/etc/cron.d

$ ls -alh
total 20
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Nov 15 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  84 root     sys         4.5K Dec  7 18:22 ..
-rwxr--r--   1 root     sys           72 Jan 22  2005 .proto
prw-------   1 root     root           0 Dec 14 18:08 FIFO
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys           40 Jul 14  2007 at.deny
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys           40 Jul 14  2007 cron.deny
-rw-r--r--   1 root     sys           17 Jan 22  2005 queuedefs

thanks in advance;
fsp

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Last edited by Scott; 12-14-2010 at 11:31 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 12-14-2010
Are you asking how to enable the use of cron for your account? Be sure that the cron daemon is running.
1) Create /etc/cron.d/cron.allow file with your user ID in it
2) crontab -e
3) add your entries
# 3  
Old 12-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by garskoci
Are you asking how to enable the use of cron for your account? Be sure that the cron daemon is running.
1) Create /etc/cron.d/cron.allow file with your user ID in it
2) crontab -e
3) add your entries

hi, yes i want to enable cron on my account, the deamon was running under root.

when i command user "user1"
Code:
$ EDITOR=vi
$ export EDITOR
$ crontab -e

i can assigned the crontab, but when i logout it was disappeared.
Last edited by Scott; 12-14-2010 at 11:32 AM..
# 4  
Old 12-21-2010
When you do the :wq! to write and quick your vi session, are there any messages displayed? If you executed a "crontab -e" afterwords, the file is empty?
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