Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:42:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: data@dreamhaven.net (Bryce Newall) Cc: cjclark@home.com, nrahlstr@winternet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Broken "at" ? Message-ID: <199902251442.JAA03364@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902242337040.453-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org> from Bryce Newall at "Feb 24, 99 11:38:44 pm"
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Bryce Newall wrote, > It seemed to do the trick, though. Glad it worked, but one point... > I guess atrun is written to run as "daemon", and since the > directories were owned by root, it couldn't get proper access to modify > files within those directories. Definately not true. From /etc/crontab, #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun atrun has to be able to execute commands as root or any other invoking user. Only a priviledged user can do that. As to why that fixed it... shrug. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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