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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Logging In as UUCP to Set crontab
Keywords: UUCP CRON
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.215254.28667@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 21:52:54 GMT
References: <250@silogic.UUCP> <25@raysnec.UUCP> <350@tygra.ddmi.com>
Reply-To: itkin@guinan.Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software, Inc., Los Altos, CA
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jpp@tygra.ddmi.com (John Palmer) writes:

>In article <25@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>>markd@silogic.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio) writes:
>>
>>>I don't quite understand how I get a new uucp owned crontab into
>>>/usr/spool/cron/crontabs. 
>>
>>>To do this for uucp, I need to login as uucp but, of course, the login
>>>shell is uucico so that won't work. 

>Real simple: Login as root, and do this:

Nothing personal, John, but this is awfully kludgy.  I use something
that feels much simpler.

Log in as root, create the crontab, and then install it by using the
command "su uucp -c 'crontab file'"!

If you want to edit uucp's (or any other user's) crontab, you log in
as root and then start with "su uucp -c 'crontab -l > file'".  Then
edit it.  Then install it as indicated above.

I do this for uucp, news, and others of their ilk.
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