RE: How to create a crontab per user?

[Ralph Winslow <rjw@rjw.nac.net>]

On 10-Oct-97 Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
>Hello,
> 
>I'm having trouble understanding how to create a crontab on a per-user
>basis.  I have tried the standard

Try the non-standard:

crontab -l > my.crtb
vi my.crtb      # or emacs or whatever
#make the entries you need and exit
crontab my.crtb

or even:

su
echo "11,41 * * * * /home/mine/prog2run args" > /var/spool/crontabs/mine


> 
>    crontab -e
> 
>... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then
>when I save and quit, I get the following:
> 
>    wrote /tmp/crontab.XXXXa28090, 2 lines, 3 chars
>    crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1
> 
>... and I check and no crontab was actually created.  The docs for
>cron3.0pl1-38 indicate that either one or both of the files
>/var/spool/cron/deny or /var/spool/cron/allow must be present for
>accounts other than root to be permitted a private crontab.  So I
>set up both files:
> 
>flounder:~> ls -l /var/spool/cron
>total 2
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            5 Oct  9 10:46 allow
>drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jan 18  1997 crontabs
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Oct  9 10:43 deny
> 
>The 'allow' file contains my user name, and the 'deny' file is empty.
>This doesn't seem to work either.  I tried stopping and restarting
>the cron daemon; this also doesn't work (haven't tried rebooting
>yet, but it seems that shouldn't be necessary).
> 
>Can anyone clue me in to the magic configuration that is necessary
>here?
> 
>Thanks.
> 
>--ken
> 
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