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Re: Modifying Cron
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Eric Sorenson |
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Re: Modifying Cron |
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Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:09:10 -0800 (PST) |
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> I'm inclined to lean towards using crontab cronfile to install, but I'm
> not sure how I'm going to be able to do that as different users...
Yeah, don't do that.
[eric@flutter /etc/cron.d]$ more cfengine
25 * * * * root /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
Individual files, so no convergence problems, and you specify the user
to run as the second argument. This is a feature of vixie-cron so you
should be able to use it pretty widely (Solaris supplied cron is due
for replacement anyway :-) )
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