Re: Runs fine on cmd line but not in cron

From: Jim Harrison <jim_at_colway.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 2000/06/20
Message-ID: <8in04g$ojd$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>#1/1

Tom,

The words stick and wrong end come to mind. The su command also allows you to log in as any UNIX user not just root as you suggest! I believe John was suggesting logging into another user account.

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Jim Harrison
Colway Software and Design
www.colway.net

Tom Phoenix <rootbeer_at_redcat.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, John wrote:

>

> > Your cron job could run a shell script which just does an su -c <user>

> > to run the shell script you really want to run under a user which has

> > the right environment already.

>

> It's probably not wise or possible to run that program as the superuser.

> And will that make a login shell? Probably not by default. Of course, if

> you're going to run a shell script, it should be simple to source the

> initialization file and be done with it; there's no need to run as root

> and then use 'su'. Oh, well!

>

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