Cron not saving

[mcyates]

I want to run this cron:

/home/myfootba/backupsmanager.cgi --db=0 --old=15 --pack --ftp

but its not saving it or doing it. What can i do?

[nwilkens]

A bit more information please.

Have you added this entry to your crontab? If so for what user? Can you show me the exact crontab entry?

A typical crontab entry looks like:

0 5 * * * /usr/bin/command -o option

to run command at 5 am.

Crontab can be mainted via 'crontab -e', and displayed via 'crontab -l'.

If you have made the proper entries, check to see if crond is running. 'ps -ef|grep crond'

You may also want to look at: # man 5 crontab

Hope this helps
Nick

[speckados]

Use crontab -e it's ggod for customer that kwon use shell.

But the porblem it's:


Cpanel on version

WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R95
Fedora i686 - WHM X v3.1.0

Don't save cron fater user write on his panel.

There a problem.

[feanorknd]

Ok... for the problem of users saving or viewing their own cronjobs through cpanel, you can try this....

Try before executing as root:

chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab

Giving permissions to execute crontab to others, problem saving cronjobs and watching them later worked at least for me.

Good luck.

[AMD64]

Had the same problem today with this on a new cpanel install on Fedora 5

chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab

This fixed the issue, thank you feanorknd.

[mcyates]

Ok... for the problem of users saving or viewing their own cronjobs through cpanel, you can try this....

Try before executing as root:

chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab

Giving permissions to execute crontab to others, problem saving cronjobs and watching them later worked at least for me.

Good luck.

Had the same problem today with this on a new cpanel install on Fedora 5

chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab

This fixed the issue, thank you feanorknd.

Thanks guys this DOES work, i fixed it a couple of days ago but i forgot to post in here.

Thanks,

I just need my bandwidth sorted now.

[ddcarnage]

Horray solved it for me to

[jack01]

I had the problem, however I am wondering about a couple of things:

1) Is this a bug in cpanel or a security feature?

2) Do any of the more savvy experts here care to advise on the exact security implications of chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab ?

Many thanks in advance for any useful information offered.

[psychodreams]

Im haveing issues too doesnt control x suppose to save after editing
Its not doing anything
or did something change

[psychodreams]

Nevermind it was defaulted to vi which Im no used to just converted to nano with the following command

export EDITOR=nano

[Imago]

Change also the permissions for all files in /var/spool/cron

[sangeeth.m.a]

Change also the permissions for all files in /var/spool/cron

It worked for me
Thanks!

[shacker23]

Hmm... These fixes aren't working for me. If, as root, I run:

crontab -u username -l

I can see a user's cron jobs. But if I log in as that user and run

crontab -l

I get:

no crontab for username

I've run as root:

chmod a+s /usr/bin/crontab
chmod a+s /var/spool/cron/*

But the problem persists. Ideas?

[shacker23]

Weird - this problem fixed itself in the past 24 hours. Maybe the result of some script run in the nightly update? Anyway, all is well with user crontabs again.

[cPanelDavidG]

Weird - this problem fixed itself in the past 24 hours. Maybe the result of some script run in the nightly update? Anyway, all is well with user crontabs again.

For the record, the last update was released on August 15-16.