Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!occrsh!uokmax!apple!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [unix-wizards] Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root Keywords: Cron Message-ID: <1990Sep7.011642.22927@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 01:16:42 GMT Sender: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 21 Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Archive-name: cron/06-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Original-subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root Archive-site: gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2] Archive-directory: /pub/misc/vixie Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <1990Sep5.200114.1711@rosewall.citib> mjohn@king.UUCP (Michael Johnston) writes: # If you are running BSD or flavors of System V you have available to you # the 'crontab' command. Just create a crontab file for the USER you wish # to run cron jobs for. Then su to the username you wish to install it for # and say "crontab < your_cron_file". That's all folks. Not quite. BSD through 4.3-reno doesn't have this. 4.4 will have it, in the form of my free version of cron (which uses crontab -uUSER rather than 'su USER;crontab' btw). Grab it from gatekeeper.dec.com anon ftp /pub/misc/vixie/cron2.tar.Z. (Will appear in comp.sources.unix shortly.) -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie