Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi

I am using aix 5.3, when i add the cron job, I get below msg.
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crontab: 0481-109 You are not authorized to use the cron command.
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The folder list as below:
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260 prw------- 1 root cron 0 Apr 05 17:27 FIFO
65 -rw-r----- 1 bin cron 4 Jun 21 2004 at.deny
389 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin cron 16 Jun 29 2007 cron.allow
66 -rw-r----- 1 bin cron 3 Jun 21 2004 cron.deny
67 -rw-rw-r-- 1 bin bin 1010065 May 05 10:00 log
68 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1317 Jun 17 2004 queuedefs
***

I have remove root from deny list and add to allow list but still not work. pls help

Thanks
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Originally posted by: nh4aix

Hi there...

you have to add root to the cron.allow file.

Reference:
If the cron.allow file exists, only users whose login names appear in it can use the crontab command. The root user's log name must appear in the cron.allow file if the file exists. A system administrator can explicitly stop a user from using the crontab command by listing the user's login name in the cron.deny file. If only the cron.deny file exists, any user whose name does not appear in the file can use the crontab command.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/crontab.htm?resultof=%22%63%72%6f%6e%2e%64%65%6e%79%22%20

Hope that helps...

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