crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.
One of my applications instance is running on HP-UX 11. I was planning to schedule a hotbackup as a cronjob and realized that “oracle” user did not have proper permissions to set a cron. I got the following error issuing “crontab -e”
”crontab: you are not authorized to use cron. Sorry.”
Googled for it and got the following solution:
– Login as root
– Edit the /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow file
– Add “oracle” at the end.
– Logout and login as “oracle” user again.
No need to bounce any cron services for this.
Hope this tip was useful.
Thanks,
Oracle Pitstop team
Good One.
Vikram Das
October 5, 2007
In HP-UX i have try it is working fine.
Regards
Alok
alokocp@yahoo.co.in
Alok kumar Giri
March 17, 2008
Thank You!
RomaRio
March 30, 2009
Thank you ., I added myself only in /etc/cron.allow and was scratching my head.
neil brosnan
November 16, 2009
nice tips. working like a charm
Wong Palembang
May 4, 2010