Re: Runs fine on cmd line but not in cron

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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