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

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

What shell does the oracle user have? The su command may behave
oddly if it is not something sensible like sh or csh.

 - Jamie

On 20/Jun/2006 09:13 Watson, William wrote ..
> Hello Jamie,
> 
> Sorry for not responding sooner.
> 
> The command from root "su oracle -c crontab" hangs on the box. I looked
> in the HP ITRC forums but didn't find anything. Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill 
> 
> 
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:09:05 +0200
> From: "Watson, William" <Wil...@ve...>
> Subject: [webmin-l] Failed to save cron job
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> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri,  9 Jun 2006 12:04:18 -0500 (CDT)
> From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
> Subject: Re: [webmin-l] Failed to save cron job
> To: Webmin users list <web...@li...>
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> 
> 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
> 
> 
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