Cron Problems

Ok First the apology- I KNOW this must have been dealt with elsewhere but I cant find it in google or on the search forums button because the words are just so generic...

Users cron dosnt seem to work....

Now, to get more specific - when adding a cron to the system through the Cpanel interface, it says its added, but dosn't seem to do anything. Going back into standard or advanced shows no crons there - just the add new crons part.

Im sure the root crons (ie into shell, sudo su, crontab -e ) are there and working fine, but I dont think any one elses crons can be added (and :. not running).

What stupidly simple thing have I done wrong?

Thanks
JT

 

Hi,

In the /var/spool/cron there are only files for root and mailman - not for any of my users.

the /var/log/cron file shows no problems with any running crons.

I am of the belief that the web interface is not actually adding the commands to the cron system :S

The permissions on the spool directory are as follows:

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 15:41 cron/

are these sufficient? I have tried setting those to higher privildges but nothing changes when i go through the add cron procedure, (no files added, no crons appearing on the cron screen)

Thanks
JT

 

Thanks and now fixed... sort of...

seteuid: Operation not permitted

Ahaar! Google now lets me getsomewhere- I tried adding a cron.allow file in /etc/exec but that didnt help, so looking on found me this:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2001-April/msg00535.html

root@aurora [/usr/bin]# ls -la crontab
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 114765 Jun 6 2003 crontab

root@aurora [/usr/bin]# chmod 4755 crontab
root@aurora [/usr/bin]# ls -la crontab
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 114765 Jun 6 2003 crontab*

Now I wonder why that was not right? (but it works now, thanks)

JT