From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 6:33:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D3A14DF0 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 06:33:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id JAA03364; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:42:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902251442.JAA03364@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Broken "at" ? In-Reply-To: from Bryce Newall at "Feb 24, 99 11:38:44 pm" To: data@dreamhaven.net (Bryce Newall) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:42:25 -0500 (EST) Cc: cjclark@home.com, nrahlstr@winternet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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