HP-UX

Hi there,
I have a small script that I need to run every hour and would like to schedule this a a cron job. I have tried running it in root but due to elm not being setup and file permissions it does not work unless it is ran from a specfic account. Is it possible to setup a user cron and how would I go about this..ie where is the con stored etc

Thanks in advance

colin

log in as the user that needs to run the job, then create the cron job as that user

Hello,

log in as user and type:

crontab -e

will do the job !

Regards

lodey,

1. you can login with the user ID to whom the file belongs to and have to schedule this job in crontab, however if you login as the user "you may not have access "for crontab.

2. if possible, change the owner of the file to root.

Try out.

In Solaris there's a file called /etc/cron.allow that lists the users who are allowed to use cron. Chck for the existance of the same on your system, and add your user to the file. Then do the "crontab -e" via the user's shell, and create a crontab.

Well all unix I know use can have cron.allow cron.deny at.allow etc... files...
In HP-UX if present , they should be in /var/adm/cron.
Giving rights to that user to use cron will also mean he can add or remove whats in it...
Why dont you use in your root cron file the su - <user> -c <command> ?

I tried in remote, and it works fine:

Code:

52 16 * * * remsh aco -l root -n "su - vbe -c ls">/home/vbe/cron.log 2>&1