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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Why "su uucp" in root crontab, instead of uucp crontab?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 03:17:49 GMT
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
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Another "I was just wondering" question...

In SVR3 (ISC 386/ix to be precise) uucp demons are fired up by the root
crontab with a "/bin/su uucp -c ...".  Why are they done this way, instead
of being fired up from a uucp crontab?
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Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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