Re: [webmin-l] Failed to save cron job

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 9/Jun/2006 07:09 Watson, William wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> Can some one tell me where this error comes from? "Failed to save cron
> job : An error was detected in the new Cron configuration :" This error
> comes for all users except root when I try to create, edit or save. I
> checked the cron.allow file but all users are there. The modules
> configuration also points to this file. It also happens on only one of
> our boxes. 
> 
> All users cron jobs still run. I deleted the crontabs and tried to
> recreated them with the cron webmin module but the error still comes.
> Root can still be created, edited and saved with the module. This is on
> HP-UX.
> 
> Which function is raising this exception?

This error can happen if Webmin runs the crontab command to update Cron jobs,
and then detects that it has failed. On HPUX, the command is :

su USERNAME -c crontab

If you run that as root at the shell prompt and enter a job in the editor
that should appear, does it save properly?

 - Jamie