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William A. Mahaffey III
Jul 25, 2015, 10:19:52 AM7/25/15
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I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:43am] 416 % lltr
total 136
-rw------- 1 wam users 5796 Nov 10 2011 .crontab
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 166 Sep 29 2014 .shrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 1516 Sep 29 2014 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 265 Sep 29 2014 .logout
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 16 08:24 .ssh/
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 1923 Jul 17 08:22 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 694 Jul 19 11:11 .login
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 20 08:15 misc/
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 20 08:15 pub/
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 20 08:15 lib/
-rw-r--r-- 1 wam users 1044 Jul 20 10:36 .Usual
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 20 14:22 work/
-rw------- 1 wam users 11119 Jul 22 08:17 .history
drwxr-xr-x 2 wam users 512 Jul 24 10:52 bin/
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:46am] 417 % ll /var/cron/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4 Jul 24 11:00 allow
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 Jul 1 01:29 tabs/
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:21:52am] 418 % crontab -u wam .crontab
crontab: must be privileged to use -u
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:22:16am] 419 % cat /var/cron/allow
wam
[wam@4256EE1, ~, 9:24:18am] 420 %
The man page implies that users have access to set their crontab files
by default under NetBSD. My user 'wam' is in the wheel group. What am I
doing wrong here ? TIA & have a nice weekend.
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Timo Buhrmester
Jul 25, 2015, 11:01:36 AM7/25/15
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> I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
Your crontabs are in /var/cron/tabs, to edit them you could use crontab -e.
William A. Mahaffey III
Jul 25, 2015, 11:24:26 AM7/25/15
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On 07/25/15 10:07, Timo Buhrmester wrote:
>> I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
> Your crontabs are in /var/cron/tabs, to edit them you could use crontab -e.
>
Yeah, but I already have the file ready to go, I would like to install
>> I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
> Your crontabs are in /var/cron/tabs, to edit them you could use crontab -e.
>
it directly. Someone else pointed out that I don't need the '-u wam'
part of the command, & it indeed worked that way, so I am off to the
races. Thanks for your reply :-).
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ever devised by man."
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Eric Haszlakiewicz
Jul 25, 2015, 12:10:40 PM7/25/15
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On July 25, 2015 11:01:19 AM EDT, Timo Buhrmester <fstd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
>Your crontabs are in /var/cron/tabs, to edit them you could use crontab -e.
Yes, but it should be possible to specify a file to replace it with. Try just "crontab .crontab" without any -u option.
>> I am trying to install a user-specific crontab file:
>Your crontabs are in /var/cron/tabs, to edit them you could use crontab -e.
If that doesn't work, check the /etc/cron.{allow,deny} files.
Eric
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