User is not able to perform cron jobs. How do u troubleshoot?

Answer Posted / sameer patil

By default root user have permission to run crontab,

check wheter /etc/cron.d/cron.allow file is present , if it
then check entry for the user who performing the cron jobs
then set the #EDITOR=vi; , # export EDITOR & run crontab -e
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