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# 1  
Old 04-14-2005
ssh & crontab bug
Does any one knows a work around for the crontab bug when connecting using ssh to a Solaris 8 system?

When you submit a crontab job through a ssh session, the job will not be executed, SunSolve has reported no fixing patches?
# 2  
Old 04-14-2005
One of the listed bugs shows a change to OpenSSH sshd config file - change UseLogin option from no to yes.

Another shows use telnet (yea, that's a nice secure option) or console to change crontabs instead of ssh.

Both are for system that use BSM - seems that along with ssh is where the problem is.
# 3  
Old 04-14-2005
Are you editing the crontab directly using vi (e.g vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root) ?

You should use

su -
[ enter passwd ]
crontab -e
[make your cron changes]
:wq!

Not using "crontab -e" will mean your cron daemon will not pick up any new jobs submitted ... if you vi your crontab manually, you will have to then refresh the cron daemon.
# 4  
Old 05-18-2005
ssh:UseLogin
Thanks for all those replied,
The case had been resolved by setting the (UseLogin) parameter in (/etc/sshd_config) to yes, then Re-Editing the Cron by (cron -e).
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