edit crontab of remote machine server bash remsh rsh

Question

i am trying to edit crontab of remote machine is it possible ?

i am running

remsh REMOTEHOST -l REMOTEUSER crontab testcronfile

getting

crontab: can't open your crontab file.

error

thanks for help

HP-UX

Answer 1

Have you tried getting a remote interactive shell first, then executing the crontab command? If that also fails then it points the finger at the remote machine rather than how remsh connects. If it works then check the enviroments in both cases and look for differences (certain scripts only run on interactive login, for instance).

Good luck!

Answer 2

My guess is that the file testcronfile is local. When you call remsh, it tries to open a remote testcronfile, which does not exists, hence the error message :)

You have to upload your testcronfile first.

Am I right ?

my2cents