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From: vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root
Keywords: Cron
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.225446.28837@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 22:54:46 GMT
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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.)
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Paul Vixie
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