On Wednesday 05 January 2005 17:50, Tim Hanson wrote:
I've been to LDP, the SuSE admin manual, and a few other help pages. How do I give users access to cron? From what I can gather, the crontab for user egbert, for example, should be /var/spool/cron/egbert/crontab. Also, his user name shouldn't be in /var/spool/cron/deny.
From the cron manpage: If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file does not exist but the cron.deny file does exist, then you must not be listed in the cron.deny file in order to use this command. If neither of these files exists, only the super user will be allowed to use this command. Do you have an allow file? Also, the preferred way of editing individual users crontabs is via crontab -e not by directly editing the crontab file. If I remember correctly the default under SuSE 9.2 was that after install you can just do crontab -e and edit your crontab file. Brana