Crontab error – Permission Denied

When you try to schedule backups under corntab as Oracle user, you might encounter crontab permission error

[oracle@plcdbprod ~]$ crontab -l

cron/oracle: Permission denied

The error is because of permission issues on /usr/bin/crontab le. Login as root user and find the crontab permissions on /usr/bin/crontab

[root@plcdbprod ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/crontab

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 315432 Jul 15 2008 /usr/bin/crontab



Give the below permissions to /usr/bin/crontab file

[root@plcdbprod ~]# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/crontab
[root@plcdbprod ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/crontab
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 315432 Jul 15 2008 /usr/bin/crontab

Login as oracle user and check your crontab -e.