[aparna]

hi everyone,
i am creating a fe for cron.everything works fine except that for the system() command.( the most important part of my code)
<snip>
system("crontab /tmp/crontab.tmp/");
</snip>
any help on why its refusing 2 execute would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance,
aparna

[blaw]

Hi there,

What kind of error are you getting?

I thought crontab command doesn't output anything upon success (I may be wrong). In that case, you may not see anything even if it was successful, because system() returns the last line of system output. Try cron -l to see what jobs you have in crontab.

Also, there may be some issues with permissions - something to do with /etc/cron.deny or /etc/cron.allow file, but I'm not too sure of that.

By the way, by importing cron.tmp, I guess you are replacing the existing cron jobs with whatever you have in the file - did you make sure to include all the default/existing jobs, etc, set by your admin or control panel or whatever it may be?

Sorry I can't be a help really, but my 33 cents there.

[aparna]

hi,
thanks for the prompt reply.

what i meant by error was that the background process is not executing ie whatever is added from my php script is not getting added onto my crontab(when i checked ot cmd line using crontab l)

thanks again.
aparna

[aparna]

hi,
thanks alot everyone
got it right at last (had 2 do with permissions)
Apu