On Fri, 30 May 2003, Yanick Quirion wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a little problem when using linux redhat crontab. I want to run an Oracle SQL > script using the oracle user. On the user, I use command crontab -e and add the > line, for example: > > 0 12 * * * /home/oracle/SQL_Script/script1.ksh > > The script will run, but it will be start by user "root". When the job is completed, > I will have a message from root. This causes me problem, because the user root is > not able to connect to the oracle database without specified the "sys" password into > the script. > > Hi have the similar script on my SUN Solaris. Under this platform, the script will > be executed by user oracle and I will receive an e-mail from user Oracle, so I'm not > obliged to type the "sys" password into my script. > > There is a way to force a cron job to run as the user who owns the job? I make some > test with the command "at", and this one seems working fine, but I need a job to run > each day, not just one time. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards > -Yanick
The simplest way is to log in or su to the user in question and run "crontab -e". Barring that, as root, you can "crontab -u <username> -e". -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
