UNIX: Anyone have any good sites to help me out?

[SessionA]

I am needing access to use the crontab program, and it is giving me the following error message:

"UX:crontab: ERROR: You are not authorized to use crontab. Sorry."

I want to give myself full root permissions, but I have not found a way to do it yet. Does anyone have any good websites on UNIX permissions? I can't seem to find any good UNIX sites.

 

[Damaged]

You have to be root to edit the crontab directly. As a "standard" user you will not be able to alter these permissions.

Typically you would need to contact your system administrator to get him/her to add you to the cron.allow file so that you can add things as a "standard" user.

 

[SessionA]

Thanks, Damaged.

Do you know any good websites for newbies to UNIX?

 

[Damaged]

This one is real basic, but helpful if you're a beginner:

UNIX Tutorial

Which flavor are you working with here (i.e. Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.)?

 

[SessionA]

We use Solaris and SCO UNIXWare. I understand file level permissions, but I mostly need a reference for all of the config files. I can navigate around fairly well. I really appreciate the help, I am really wanting to become proficient at this.

 

[Damaged]

Solaris and SCO: you should just go to your nearest book store and spend some time with one of the books on each.

I'm much more familiar with Linux and the BSDs than Solaris, though we do have a couple of boxen running Solaris where I work, I just don't mess with 'em much. And we have no SCO.

Oh...duh! I forgot about this link: Sun Docs

 

[SessionA]

Thanks, I will have to go through my existing documentation here at work, I was just hoping that someone had a quick reference.

 

[Sunner]

Sun's documentation site is very good for help on Solaris, and since most UNIX dialects share alot of common stuff, its helpful for other UNIX'es as well.
docs.sun.com

 

[SessionA]

Any SCO people out there?

 

[BOFH]

try crontab -e for cron jobs as your user instead of editing the main one directly. this is for your own saftey and protection until you learn more about it. this won't work so well if you need root perms when running the job though

 

[Damaged]

doh! I completely forgot about that. Good call BOFH.