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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Cron questions
Message-ID: <1247@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 00:30:04 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 15 00:30:04 1986
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In article <1120001@hpfcla.HP.COM>, ajs@hpfcla.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein) writes:
>> 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.

And as long as "person" does not have an interactive .profile (I've been
burned by this).
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