Crontab permission denied while making a directory in user's home

Dfangs · 05-28-2009, 11:50 AM

hi all,

i'm a newbie and ws working on crontab and had a problem..

I want to create a directory in a user's home directory at a particular time (only when the user's logged in.)

so i used crontab from root..

# crontab -u <user name> -e

it open a editor with cron for that user

i write..

20 10 * * * mkdir /home/<username>/dir

when i log in as user, at 10:20 i get a mail as...

Permission denied....

i checked cron.deny file there is no user added there so can some one tell me what i'm doin wrong??

Tnks

archangel_617b · 05-28-2009, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dfangs

hi all,

i'm a newbie and ws working on crontab and had a problem..

I want to create a directory in a user's home directory at a particular time (only when the user's logged in.)

so i used crontab from root..

# crontab -u <user name> -e

it open a editor with cron for that user

i write..

20 10 * * * mkdir /home/<username>/dir

when i log in as user, at 10:20 i get a mail as...

Permission denied....

i checked cron.deny file there is no user added there so can some one tell me what i'm doin wrong??

Tnks

Can you mkdir /home/<username>/dir as the user normally (e.g. outside of cron)?

- Arch

Dfangs · 05-29-2009, 06:57 AM

yeah i can make directory using::

mkdir /home/<username>/dir

problem is there with only one user

i tried the same thing with another user it worked.

i checked the permission of user's home directory there are no modifications in them .

archangel_617b · 05-29-2009, 09:44 AM

Please show "ls -ld /home/<username> /home/<username>/dir" and "crontab -lu <username>"

Thanks,
- Arch