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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
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Subject: Re: Abnormal Cron Behavior -- very strange.
Keywords: cron
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Date: 5 Jun 90 19:08:54 GMT
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I have a question about cron too.

I have a process that execls cron. If the process is run setuid to root
it comes back with the following message:

! cannot access fifo queue Tue Jun  5 11:58:20 1990
! ******* CRON ABORTED ******** Tue Jun  5 11:58:20 1990

It works fine if run by root or if I add setuid (0) before the execl
call. Why should it matter whether the real user id is set to root?



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