# finding crontab and permissions

**URL:** <https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281>\
**Category:** Solaris\
**Created:** [May 16, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281 "2012-05-16T04:20:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sridhardwh](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/sridhardwh/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@sridhardwh](https://community.unix.com/u/sridhardwh)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281/1 "2012-05-16T04:20:13Z")

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hi ,  
how/where to find crontab and permissions that whether my user id has crontab permissions or not .  
I need to schedule one job through one application(datastage application) which is installed on sunsolaris envirobnment. When i try to schedule job/s, i am getting error that

```nohighlight
"Error adding to schedule: at: you are not authorized to use at. Sorry. 
(Command was: at -s 00:15 MAY 16) 
(Data was: /vol01/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/Test_MaRS/dsr_sched.sh /vol01/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/Test_MaRS /vol01/dsadm/Ascential/DataStage/DSEngine SPMSeqPT 0/50/1/0/0 2 >/dev/null 2>&1) "

```

please help me out to get out of this issue .  
Thanks in advance for all your support.

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**Author:** ![methyl](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/methyl/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@methyl](https://community.unix.com/u/methyl)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281/2 "2012-05-16T06:14:47Z")

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You will need root access to answer this question. If you are not the administrator of the server, then ask the administrator. As a non-root user you will not be able to read the permissions files.

You clearly do not have permission to schedule `at` jobs through cron. Unless you only want to run the job once you woud not use `at` , you would create a `crontab` entry.

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**Author:** ![juan.brein](https://community.unix.com/user_avatar/community.unix.com/juan.brein/32/7930_2.png) [@juan.brein](https://community.unix.com/u/juan.brein)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 9:49am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281/3 "2012-05-16T09:49:01Z")

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they are in:

/etc/cron.d/cron.allow  
/etc/cron.d/cron.deny  
/etc/cron.d/at.allow  
/etc/cron.d/at.deny

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**Author:** ![sridhardwh](https://community.unix.com/letter_avatar/sridhardwh/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@sridhardwh](https://community.unix.com/u/sridhardwh)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/finding-crontab-and-permissions/310281/4 "2012-05-17T07:41:04Z")

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Thank you for your information.