Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!nusdecs!rwhite From: rwhite@nusdecs.uucp (Robert White) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2.2 Can't set login uid from cron Message-ID: <1991Apr5.173414.2837@nusdecs.uucp> Date: 5 Apr 91 17:34:14 GMT References: <1991Apr02.123535.11230@pfm.rmt.sub.org> Organization: National University, San Diego Lines: 13 The "su -c" is only necessary for crontab entrys run as root. If your system supports separate crontabs for each user the "su -c" is unnecessary and should be removed. The sample entrys are presented under the "most limited system assumptions" (IMHO) and should be modifyed as approprate. It worked here just fine. -- Robert C. White Jr. | The degree to which a language may be Network Administrator | classified as a "living" language National University | is best expressed as the basic ratio crash!nusdecs!rwhite | of its speakers to its linguists.