Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5100 news.admin:9936
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Expire Working???
Message-ID: <1990Jul7.232619.6701@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul1.203051.15428@supernet.harris-adacom.com> <1990Jul3.155206.3107@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul5.193948.13335@caen.engin.umich.edu> <1990Jul6.180532.24641@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 90 23:26:19 GMT

In article <1990Jul6.180532.24641@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> root@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
>That depends upon where the crontab entires are located.  I naively put mine
>in a news crontab and removed all the "su news -c" parts.  Should I have placed
>it in some other crontab say root? ...

With the exception of setnewsids (an auxiliary to relaynews, needed if your
system cannot do setuid(geteuid())), nothing in C News needs to run as root.
-- 
"Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS    | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
must be changed."  -John K. Ousterhout |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry