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From: markd@silogic.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Logging In as UUCP to Set crontab
Keywords: UUCP CRON
Message-ID: <250@silogic.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 16:53:05 GMT
Organization: Silogic Systems, San Diego, CA
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I don't quite understand how I get a new uucp owned crontab into
/usr/spool/cron/crontabs. 

Any other user can type:	crontab <file>

and that file is transfered into /usr/spool/cron/crontabs with correct
ownership and cron itself is alerted to the fact that a new crontab has
been loaded. 

To do this for uucp, I need to login as uucp but, of course, the login
shell is uucico so that won't work. 

If I login as root and copy the crontab into /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
and set up the ownership with chown and chgrp, cron is not alerted to
the new crontab until, apparently, I reboot.

Ideas?

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