Re: how to update cron daemon without crontab -e?

From: Michelle DeVault (adsmigmo@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 15:58:58 EDT


Thanks, that did it.

M.
--- Bill Thompson <bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM> wrote:
> Michelle,
>
> I just went through this same scenario. We inherited
> a number of servers
> but before they were given to us, the former admins
> removed a user who had
> a running cron job but must have manually removed
> the users cron entries. I
> was getting the exact same message: Cannot set the
> process credentials for
> user xyz.
>
> The fix was simple. Since the entries were gone, I
> just killed the cron
> process. It will start back up automatically because
> cron is run out of
> inittab with a respawn option. When it restarts, it
> will re-read all the
> crontab entries minus the removed entries.
>
> Worked for me.
>
> Bill Thompson
> Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michelle DeVault" <adsmigmo@YAHOO.COM>
> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
> To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:09 PM
> Subject: how to update cron daemon without crontab
> -e?
>
> > Our security admin deleted a user who had an
> active
> > cron job running once an hour. Now I'm getting
> the
> > mail message:
> >
> > Cron: 0481-134 Cannot set the process credentials
> for
> > user <user>
> >
> > If I (manually) remove the cron job from the
> former
> > user's crontab file (or just delete the crontab
> file
> > altogether), how can I then get the cron daemon to
> > update and recognize that it's not supposed to be
> > executing that script anymore? Can I just kill
> the
> > /usr/sbin/cron process and let it start again?
> >
> > M
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