On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:29:38PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:02:13PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: ... >>I've now added a little workaround for this subtle problem to the rc >>command starting with openpkg-20030202-20030202. Just try it out. >>Details: http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=7230 > >Building it now. Looks reasonable.
Looks can be deceiving. Testing this on SuSE 8.1, running cron-3.0.1 (SuSE distribution, not openpkg), the ``su'' doesn't seem to be executing at all for non root users. It is executing that part of the script (I added a command to copy $tmpfile after the ``su'' command, and that worked). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.'' -- Thomas Jefferson to James Lewis, Jr., 1798. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]