Hi, I have set the cron tab for my site. But I have got message in my mailing id like this "Permission denied" for the script. Can anyone help me telling what may be the problem.
Thanks......
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A:
I can specify a seperate cronfile for each avaible user. So, you can add a new user (adduser), give that user special permissions and and run your script in that user cronfile.
Reference Crontab Manual
Henrik P. Hessel
2009-05-21 09:39:45
To expand on this: crontab's are per user. So make sure the user whose crontab you have edited has execute rights on the script.
Colin Fine
2009-05-21 09:42:08
That's correct. Thanks Colin. As stated in the manual you can edit users cronfiles with crontab -e username
Henrik P. Hessel
2009-05-21 09:46:38
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You get this error while setting the crontab? or from a script running from the cron?
If while setting the crontab, try this:
You type: crontab -e You get: -bash: /usr/bin/crontab: Permission denied
Problem: Your user is not in the cron group.
Solution: As root, edit the /etc/group file, find the cron group and add your user to that line (the usernames are comma-separated). Then re-login as your user.
Verify: Run command "groups". You should see "cron" in there.
(from http://www.parseerror.com/argh/crontab-e-Permission-denied.txt)
Colin Pickard
2009-05-21 09:40:38
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friends if any one wants schedule crons from other user just do this
root user:-
ls /usr/bin/crontab chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab
echo PATH vi /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_22/bin:/root/bin:/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_22/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/
cd /etc/cron.d
create cron.allow file if not exist
vi cron.allow root other username
save and exist
su – username /usr/bin/crontab -e
schedule here ……………….
i hope this may help u friends
by Ravi Reddy
ravi
2010-04-14 08:22:14