Re: crontab(1) confused by su(1)?

2013-07-26 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Could someone please provide an example where su(1) confuses crontab(1)? If I get it right the problem is not running crontab, rather modifying the crontrab files. In such case the following could be an example: I ask su(1) to

Re: crontab(1) confused by su(1)?

2013-07-26 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 26 08:42:52, fluca1...@infinito.it wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote: Could someone please provide an example where su(1) confuses crontab(1)? If I get it right the problem is not running crontab, rather modifying the crontrab files. In such

Re: crontab(1) confused by su(1)?

2013-07-24 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 16 13:23:01, h...@stare.cz wrote: crontab(1) says -u user Specifies the name of the user whose crontab(5) is to be edited. If this option is not given, crontab examines ``your'' crontab(5); i.e., the crontab of the person executing the

crontab(1) confused by su(1)?

2013-07-16 Thread Jan Stary
crontab(1) says -u user Specifies the name of the user whose crontab(5) is to be edited. If this option is not given, crontab examines ``your'' crontab(5); i.e., the crontab of the person executing the command. Note that su(1) can confuse