Louis, Are you sure its a crontab problem and not just a path problem? What I suggest you try is as root type: which crontab it should give you the full path to the crontab binary, then as the user type "path-to-crontab" and see if that makes any difference. If it does, perhaps the users need the path to their crontab in their PATH, to do this to existing users, edit ~/.bash_profile (~ means their home directory) and put the path in "PATH=". To do this for all new users created, place the same in /etc/skel/.bash_profile
Regards, Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis Selvon Sent: Sunday, 14 April 2002 10:31 PM To: Kevin Saenz Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [SLUG] Cron Weird Problem from a newby] Hi Kevin: > *** My problem here is that when I create user accounts on this web server, > they cannot run "crontab -e" . I get the error message > > "bash: crontab: command not found" > > There is no cron.allow, and cron.deny on this server in /etc/ . So anyone on > this server can run cron. Right ?? > > At the moment I tried something different that works instead of > crontab -e, but I want them to be able to run "crontab -e" command. > > Louis. >It sounds like their profile is not configued correctly. all my >users can run crontab, and execute crontab -e *** The account are created by the server Control Panel (it's called Ensim). It must be using some defaults for account creation, and may be crontab is not there. Is there a way for me to edit the already created account to give crontab access ? Also where does Linux store defaults for account creation ? Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
