Tim Wunder <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed thusly on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:31 AM:
> On 2/19/2003 9:24 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! > wrote: > The cron job belongs to my user, based on the fact that > executing 'crontab -e' as my user lists the job, and the > log file that's created is owned by me. > > I imagine I *could* run the job as root (heck, I could do > *everything* as root, couldn't I?). If I run the job as > root, then my source tree would become owned by root, so > I'd either have to change ownership back to me when I > want to manually update, or always update as root. Seems > contrary to the genreally accepted practice of running as > root as little as possible, though. And it doesn't > address the question of why sudo doesn't seem to work > when part of a cron job, but works swimmingly when run > from the same script manually. Couldn't you run the script that works so well as a cron job? In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) Thomas A. Condon Barbershop Bass Singer Registered Linux User #154358 A Jester Unemployed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
