cannot use crontab as root????

rnj · 10-20-2004, 10:05 AM

Crontab Problem

Crontab is installed by default on the fedora core 2 system. I tried running "crontab -l" command from root prompt. It gave a error "You(root) cannot use crontab, check man crontab for more information". I did check the manpage..got no info...I did try the same command with normal user. It gives the same error. I also tried -u option. Please suggest.

Thx in advance for any suggestion.

RnJ

ugge · 10-24-2004, 06:53 AM

the cron system has a permission control system, using two files allow and deny.
Check your /var/spool/cron directory for presence of these files.

rnj · 10-24-2004, 10:24 AM

hi

I solved the problem by creating the cron.allow and cron.deny files under /etc

touch /etc/cron.allow
touch /etc/cron.deny
Added root in cron.allow

It works now.

Ta

Rnj