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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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--On Friday, May 11, 2007 19:45:22 +0000 Duane Hill=20
<d.hill@yournetplus.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>>
>> Then try running this in your cron job:
>> /bin/sh /etc/scriptfile
>>
>> Bet it does work.  :-)
>
> Yes, but if the OP has:
>
># !/bin/sh
>
> as the first line, the file owned by root and the executable flag for
> user set, shouldn't it execute from cron as just:
>
> /etc/scriptfile
>
> ??
>
Yes, but I always like cron jobs to specifically call absolute path to the=20
binary of choice.  That way someone couldn't substitute a different binary=20
by altering the path and force a cron job to do something unexpected.

--=20
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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