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# 1  
Old 06-13-2006
Different edit crontab at Solaris..?

Hi..
At linux
I can edit crontab with command
$crontab -e

BUT I don't know to edit crontab at Solaris
because I tried with command $crontab -e
I can't do that
Can you help me...?


Thanks for solution

regards,
srilinux
# 2  
Old 06-13-2006
Why can't you do it?

You may not be authorized to use cron. Or; you may be editing your crontab with ed if your VISUAL environment variable is not set.

Cheers
ZB
# 3  
Old 06-13-2006
Ok..
I have found crontab file at /var/spool/cron/crontabs
and I opened/edited with vi
#vi root
So Can you suggest for me if my script below wrong or mistakes
---------
#I want to ping every 15 minutes, everyday and responed only 5 time answer #for 1 IP (for example 10.0.0.62)
15 * * * * ping -s 10.0.0.62 56 5
# 4  
Old 06-13-2006
You shouldn't edit the crontab directly like that.

From man crontab
Code:
           Note that all crontab jobs should be
           submitted using crontab; you should not  add  jobs  by
           just editing the crontab file because cron will not be
           aware of changes made this way.

Cheers
ZB
# 5  
Old 06-13-2006
Continuing with man crontab:

Code:
SYNOPSIS
     crontab [ filename ]
     crontab [-elr] username

And

Code:
crontab Access Control
     Users: Access to crontab is allowed:

        o if the user's name appears in /etc/cron.d/cron.allow.

        o if /etc/cron.d/cron.allow does not exist and the user's
          name is not in /etc/cron.d/cron.deny.

     Users: Access to crontab is denied:

        o if /etc/cron.d/cron.allow exists and the user's name is
          not in it.

        o if /etc/cron.d/cron.allow does  not  exist  and  user's
          name is in /etc/cron.d/cron.deny.

        o if neither file exists.

     Note that the rules for allow and deny apply to root only if
     the allow/deny files exist.

     The allow/deny files consist of one user name per line.

So, have a look at the files located in /etc/cron.d

"crontab -e" should work...

And as zazzybob says, you should not edit crontabs by hand...

About your cron job, what do you want such a job for? Anyway its syntax is OK...

Regards.
# 6  
Old 06-14-2006
Is it possible you dont have your EDITOR environment variable set and so when you issue the 'crontab -e' command on solaris you just get a ':' prompt?

If so try:
Code:
EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR
crontab -e

# 7  
Old 06-14-2006
How to check whether the cron daemon is running?

How to to start, stop, know status of cron?
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