CRON job failure

Vinothkumar

Hi everyone,
I installed LPAR2RRD tool in AIX successfully
I'm getting the below mail 5 minutes once in usr/spool/mail/root

From root Tue Aug 22 11:56:00 2017

Received: (from root@localhost)

by aix01 (AIX7.1/8.14.4/8.14.4) id v7M6Q02n9502782

for root; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:56:00 +0530

Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 11:56:00 +0530

From: root

Message-Id: <201708220626.v7M6Q02n9502782@aix01>

To: root

Subject: Cron Job Failure

Cron Environment:

 SHELL = 

 PATH=/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java5/jre/bin:/usr/java5/bin

 CRONDIR=/var/spool/cron/crontabs

 ATDIR=/var/spool/cron/atjobs

Output from cron as follows:

/usr/sbin/dumpctrl -k >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

0481-109 You are not authorized to use the cron command.

Please help me to resolve this issue. Thanks in Advance

Pavel

Hi,

I am not sure what you have done but root cannot run crontab.
I would add it into /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

echo "root" >> /var/adm/cron/cron.allow

But I am not sure if this work even for root user.

Check also /var/adm/cron/cron.denny

Vinothkumar

Thanks for your response pavel.
I checked the files, In var/adm/cron/cron.allow lpar2rrd is there and
in var/adm/cron/cron.deny it is empty.
What I have to do further? 

Pavel

try to add root in allow file and remove denny file

Vinothkumar

ok added root in allow file. deny file is already empty.
I should remove lpar2rrd in allow file and include root? or both can be in that file ?

Pavel

leave both.

It is an operating system issue (not related to lpar2rrd), it is hard to support you without having access to system logs etc.
Your Linux admin should be able to resolve that ...

Vinothkumar

ok thank you pavel