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From: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: su uucp in crontabs/root ?
Keywords: root uucp crontab su
Message-ID: <483@sequoia.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 02:16:08 GMT
References: <75@norsat.UUCP> <2008@egvideo.UUCP> <1524@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
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In article <1524@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
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>The S5R3 "cron" and, I think, the S5R2 "cron", do not check any of the
>"crontab" files unless they're told to;
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can someone who's looking at source or speaking from experience tell me, please,
HOW they're told to?  Is there a signal that could be used?  It would seem the
most 'unixy' thing, but I've not found it in any of our docs, and we don't have
any source...

Thanks in advance.


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