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From: brister@decwrl.dec.com (James Brister)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root
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Date: 1 Sep 90 00:07:46 GMT
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You can also do this:

echo "commands and stuff here" | su $USER

Seems to be little more portable.

James
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James Brister                                           brister@decwrl.dec.com
DEC Western Software Lab., Palo Alto, California.         .....!decwrl!brister