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2650299 - You are not allowed to use this program (crontab). See crontab(1) for more information - SAP Data Services 4.x

Symptom

  • When trying to activate Data Services schedule in DS Management Console, receive following error: Repository: REPO_NAME Schedule: SCHEDULE_NAME Error: You (<user>) are not allowed to use this program (/usr/bin/crontab). See crontab(1) for more information.

  • Scheduled job fails to kick off on Unix based OS and the following message can be seen on Job Server event log: You (<user>) are not allowed to use this program (crontab). See crontab(1) for more information. Stopped (BODI-850005).


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Environment

  • SAP Data Services 4.x
  • Linux/Unix OS.

Product

SAP Data Services 4.0 ; SAP Data Services 4.1 ; SAP Data Services 4.2

Keywords

 BODS, DS, Data Services, schedule, Linux, Job, Job Server, DSMC, Management Console, error, fail, permission, cron, crontab, unix, scheduling, user, kick off, allowed , KBA , EIM-DS-SVR , Administration/Server , Problem

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