vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (09/07/90)
Archive-name: cron/06-Sep-90
Original-posting-by: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Original-subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root
Archive-site: gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2]
Archive-directory: /pub/misc/vixie
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
In article <1990Sep5.200114.1711@rosewall.citib> mjohn@king.UUCP (Michael Johnston) writes:
# If you are running BSD or flavors of System V you have available to you
# the 'crontab' command. Just create a crontab file for the USER you wish
# to run cron jobs for. Then su to the username you wish to install it for
# and say "crontab < your_cron_file". That's all folks.
Not quite. BSD through 4.3-reno doesn't have this. 4.4 will have it,
in the form of my free version of cron (which uses crontab -uUSER rather
than 'su USER;crontab' btw). Grab it from gatekeeper.dec.com anon ftp
/pub/misc/vixie/cron2.tar.Z. (Will appear in comp.sources.unix shortly.)
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Paul Vixie
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