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From: ajs@hpfcla.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
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Subject: Re: Cron questions
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Date: Sat, 4-Oct-86 15:31:12 EDT
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> It is much nicer to do it like so:
> 30 * * * * /bin/su person -c "whatever"

For efficiency, make that:

30 * * * * exec /bin/su person -c "exec whatever"

as long as "whatever" is not a pipe.