underh20.scubadiving@gmail.com wrote:
> A strange thing is happening at our Solaris 10 server. User A cannot
> run cron. The cron syntax, commands, source and destination file
> permissions all checked OK. No mail was generated after the scheduled
> cron run. The temp file in /tmp could be copied to userA's home
> directory at the command line though. However, for another user B
> within the same group, the same cron job ran successfully. The temp
> file was copied to user B's home directory. There was no mail generated
> either.
>
> I am very puzzled by this. Could anyone shed some light on this simple
> problem please ? Much appreciated, Bill
>
>
> ##########BAD######################
> user A > crontab -l
>
> 51 13 * * 1-6 /export/home/userA/copy.ksh
>
>
> user A > cat /export/home/userA/copy.ksh
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> /usr/bin/cp /tmp/temp /export/home/userA
>
> ####################################
>
>
>
>
> ##########GOOD######################
> user B > crontab -l
>
> 51 13 * * 1-6 /export/home/userB/copy.ksh
>
>
> user B > cat /export/home/userB/copy.ksh
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> /usr/bin/cp /tmp/temp /export/home/userB
>
> ######################################

Hi,

Why don't you check the cron.deny and cron.allow?