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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2.2 Can't set login uid from cron
Message-ID: <uaVuZ6w164w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 4 Apr 91 02:28:53 GMT
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bernd@pfm.rmt.sub.org (Bernd Hennig) writes:
> Cron: can't set login UID

Lemme guess.  You killed and re-started cron, in order to get it to
re-read your crontab, right?

Bad move.  SCO Unix cron, in order to set the LUID to run jobs as
another user, has to run WITHOUT an LUID.  Since there is no way to
reset your LUID once it's set, and no way to un-set it, cron has to be
started from the rc scripts, not from a shell prompt.

If you reboot the machine, things should be fixed.  I don't know if
this is fixed if you install unx257; one would hope that it is, but
knowing SCO, I doubt it.

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