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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: <487@sequoia.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 16:15:58 GMT
References: <75@norsat.UUCP> <2008@egvideo.UUCP> <1524@auspex.auspex.com> <483@sequoia.UUCP> <1545@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
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[>> is me (Dewey Henize)]
In article <1545@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>>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?
>
>Go back and reread my posting; you do so by using the "crontab" command.
>
Easy, relax.  I'm not trying to do anything unnatural or perverted here :-)

I DID read the posting, and as a matter of fact, on the machines we have that
run the multiple crontab implementation, that is in fact what I do.  I asked
about the mechanism because I wished to understand it, and because there have
been occasions when a user has NOT followed that procedure.  I don't have 100%
control of the machines on 'my' <ahem> network, many of our users have a lot
of access.  (Most are real good people, too, and don't deliberately mess
things up.)  Occasionally someone does some things without RTFM though, and it
would be nice to be able to send a signal or whatever to quickly fix a problem
if that were a known way to get things back on track.

Sorry to upset you.

Dewey
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