Crontab & Permission denied

Hi

hopefully some one can help a me, I'm pretty well a newbie, I've just opened an account here and am having a problem creating a cron job. Before I post a support request thought i'd run it be here first in case I'm being a bit thick :-)

I created a file cronfile.txt and FTP'd into mydomain.com folder

I've logged in on my domain via ssh :-

ssh myusername@mydomain.com

entered my password, all good logged in

At the command line I entered :-

crontab cronfile.txt

but I get return :-

[popcorn]$ crontab cronfile.txt
crontabs/tmp.9gvxrb: Permission denied

If I crontab -l I get :-

crontabs/myusername: Permission denied

Am I missing something obvious, I'm a complete newbie but have followed wiki and other texts I thought the above should have worked or do I need to request crontabs from dreamhost?

Many thanks in advance

rob

In reply to:

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I created a file cronfile.txt and FTP'd into mydomain.com folder
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At the command line I entered :-

crontab cronfile.txt

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You didn't say anything about first doing "cd mydomain.com"?

> crontabs/myusername: Permission denied

I get "no crontab for username" for a user without a crontab, so something doesn't seem right there.

Did you look in /etc to see if you find cron.allow or cron.deny? My server doesn't have either, which lets anybody use cron IIRC.

Good luck,

BobS

Hi

thanks for the pointer. I'd tried it before, here what I tried again!

[popcorn]$ dir
Maildir id_rsa.pub logs mydomain.com
[popcorn]$ cd mydomain.com
[popcorn]$ dir
cronfile.txt
[popcorn]$ crontab cronfile.txt
crontabs/tmp.RfPPaQ: Permission denied
[popcorn]$

This is stumping me. I've read a few diffrent wiki pages and my account dir just dosnt add up to whats in the wiki.

Many thanks

rob

I suggest filing a Support request, for a probable server misconfiguration. This one looks like another candidate for the wiki FAQ, based on a search of the forum for crontabs/tmp and permission denied.

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=43836

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=39094

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=38737

But most definitive/authoritative is this response by Dallas, a honcho/founder of DH:

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=forum_beginners&Number=30738

Good luck,

BobS

Hi BobS

many thanks for taking the time to help, I've just posted a support request.

cheers

rob