On 10/4/07, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to do ~something like~ put "ksig --random" on an hourly > cron. But I only care to do it for user joeBloe. cron seems to be a > superuser thing. In this case, I *have* root access. But what if I > don't? Is there a way that joeUser can set up an hourly job? >
Without going deeply into the subject, the version of cron that is present on nearly all Linux systems allows each user to have an individual crontab. See $(man cron) for more explanation. Ask more questions after looking there. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie