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Re: tiny bug in ucrond
- To: alinden <http://www.localhost.de/~alinden>
- Subject: Re: tiny bug in ucrond
- From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:21:55 -0400
- Cc: http://www.netcologne.de/~alinden
- In-Reply-To: <13713.27913.889024.685043@localhost>
- XX-from: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
 > From: alinden <http://www.localhost.de/~alinden>
 > Date: Thu  Jun 25,  6:03am
 >
 > robert writes:
 >  > 
 >  > There is a crontab file.  It looks like it only has stuff from root's
 >  > crontab file -- I thought that that was normal.  Is it?
 > 
 > Should be that, only if you use crontab under your user account (or with
 > -u) the crontab it creates has your user name, similar to dcron and most
 > others. In vixiecron you can do something like 'su user%' from the root
 > crontab to pipe into the su command and set another user. This doesn't
 > work here, my idea was to use an option (-U=user) because the user appears
 > correctly in the logfile then and it doesn't have to load an external
 > program to run it.
 > 
 > > It says "5 jobs registered".  I haven't counted the actual number of jobs,
 > 
 > Sounds correct. If I understand you right, it didn't install your private
 > (non-root) crontab?
Right.
 > This should appear if you use crontab <file> 
 > or crontab -e under your user account. Is the directory with crontabs 
 > world readable
No.  I'll do this as well.
 > and the crontab command suid root?
Yes.
 > Thanks for reporting bugs!
Thanks to you for the software!
 > Alexander