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Solaris 10 cron not running for one user - newbie question
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| underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com 2006-12-01, 7:23 pm |
| A strange thing is happening at our Solaris 10 server. User A cannot
run cron. The cron syntax, commands, source and destination file
permissions all checked OK. No mail was generated after the scheduled
cron run. The temp file in /tmp could be copied to userA's home
directory at the command line though. However, for another user B
within the same group, the same cron job ran successfully. The temp
file was copied to user B's home directory. There was no mail generated
either.
I am very puzzled by this. Could anyone shed some light and help me
resolving this simple problem please ? Much appreciated, Bill
##########BAD######################
user A > crontab -l
51 13 * * 1-6 /export/home/userA/copy.ksh
user A > cat /export/home/userA/copy.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/cp /tmp/temp /export/home/userA
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##########GOOD######################
user B > crontab -l
51 13 * * 1-6 /export/home/userB/copy.ksh
user B > cat /export/home/userB/copy.ksh
#!/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/cp /tmp/temp /export/home/userB
######################################
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| Bill Marcum 2006-12-01, 7:23 pm |
| On 1 Dec 2006 11:25:38 -0800, underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com
<underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com> wrote:
> A strange thing is happening at our Solaris 10 server. User A cannot
> run cron. The cron syntax, commands, source and destination file
> permissions all checked OK. No mail was generated after the scheduled
> cron run. The temp file in /tmp could be copied to userA's home
> directory at the command line though. However, for another user B
> within the same group, the same cron job ran successfully. The temp
> file was copied to user B's home directory. There was no mail generated
> either.
>
Is there anything in /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny?
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| humphrey.c.chan@gmail.com 2006-12-01, 7:23 pm |
| Hi Bill,
No. But we did look at /var/cron/log.
UserA's password has expired. We reset it and the cron is working
again.
Thanks,
Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2006 11:25:38 -0800, underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com
> <underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anything in /etc/cron.allow or /etc/cron.deny?
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