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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:11:55 +0000
From: Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Changing to/from user within script
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Possibly a trivial question.

I want to run a cron job as a user on my system.  Once the job has
completed I need root privileges to power the system down.  I don't 
mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the 
processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. 

Can this be done without running two different cron jobs?.

thanks
Jeff

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