bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) (09/08/90)
In article <1990Sep5.200114.1711@rosewall.citib> mjohn@king.UUCP (Michael Johnston) writes: >In article <1054@dekalb.UUCP> douglas@dekalb.UUCP (Douglas B. Jones) writes: >>In article <26d9499b.2715@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> gmartin@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Hackman) writes: >>> Is there any way to make a job that runs from cron run under a >>> different login id??? ----deleted material re. how to set up---- >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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On my AT&T SysV/386 system there are also two files in /usr/lib/cron which must be worked with in order to let others use the cron utility: cron.allow Contains names of the users allowed to use cron. One name per line cron.deny Contains names of user who may not use cron. All others may. If this file is empty then ALL users have access to cron. Format is one user name to a line. This file is only used if cron.allow is not present, ie. if both are there only cron.allow applies. neither file Only root can use cron. These files control who can use the crontab command and are documented in the man page for it. >-- >Michael R. Johnston, Mgr. Internet: mjohn@citib.com >USCPG , Treasury Systems UUCP: uunet!uupsi!bank!mjohn >Citicorp, NA (718) 248-5373 Bob McGowan (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...) Product Support, Wyse Technology, San Jose, CA ..!uunet!wyse!bob bob@wyse.com