edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) (10/28/85)
We have a PDP-11/44 here running 2.9BSD. I've found that programs run by cron get the 'daemon' user id. Is this correct behavior? If not, should I alter things so it runs as 'root'? (As our 3B20 SysV2.2 does) Could this change be hazardous? Does cron really *need* to be run as 'daemon'? Thans for any and all replies... -- Edward C. Bennett UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward /* A charter member of the Scooter bunch */ "Goodnight M.A."
campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) (10/30/85)
> We have a PDP-11/44 here running 2.9BSD. I've found that programs > run by cron get the 'daemon' user id. > Is this correct behavior? > If not, should I alter things so it runs as 'root'? (As our 3B20 SysV2.2 does) > Could this change be hazardous? Does cron really *need* to be run as 'daemon'? > -- > Edward C. Bennett > UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward 4.2BSD's cron runs things under 'root', which seems to be OK if you're careful about what you run from crontab. -- Larry Campbell decvax!genrad The Boston Software Works, Inc. \ 120 Fulton St. seismo!harvard!wjh12!maynard!campbell Boston MA 02109 / / ihnp4 cbosgd ARPA: maynard.UUCP:campbell@harvard.ARPA