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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:29:03 -0800
From:      "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us>
To:        Jeff Penn <jeff@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Changing to/from user within script
Message-ID:  <BA029E2F.13E8F%pscott@skycoast.us>
In-Reply-To: <20021121221155.GA3926@jrpenn.demon.co.uk>

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> 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?.

Not sure if I understand the problem, but it seems to me that you can run
script as root from cron, and resource limits can be controlled with the
shell's 'ulimit' (sh) or 'limit' (csh) commands.

-- 
Paul A. Scott
mailto:pscott@skycoast.us
http://skycoast.us/pscott/


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