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From: mjohn@king..citib (Michael Johnston)
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Subject: Re: Cron jobs running as something other than root
Keywords: Cron
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.153056.6286@rosewall.citib>
Date: 7 Sep 90 15:30:56 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.225446.28837@wrl.dec.com> vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>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.)

I stand corrected. The system I'm using is running SunOS 4.03 and it
DOES have the crontab utility. SunOS being derived from BSD but with
added SysV extensions often makes me forget it's origins.


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