<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:03 PM, David G. Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@davenjudy.org" target="_blank">dave@davenjudy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Joe Zeff <joe <at> <a href="http://zeff.us" target="_blank">zeff.us</a>> writes:<br>
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> I have my computers registered with the Linux Counter, and my main<br>
> desktop machine is supposed to update its status once a week, using a<br>
> cron job:<br>
><br>
> # added by lico-update.sh version 0.3.14<br>
> 58 11 * * 4 /home/joe/bin/lico-update.sh -m<br>
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> The permissions on the script are right, and if run manually, it works.<br>
> This worked fine under Fedora 16, but doesn't now that I'm running F<br>
> 17. Does anybody know what's happened, or how to find out?<br>
>From the crontab man page:<br>
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The cron jobs could be allow or disallow for different users. For classical<br>
crontab there exists cron.allow and cron.deny files. If cron.allow file<br>
exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this<br>
command.<br>
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Perchance you're not in crontab.allow?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Dave<br>
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--<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>where is crontab.allow? I just went to locate the file and couldn't. </div></div></div></div>