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Subject: Re: Running cron jobs as nobody
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Bill Campbell wrote:
> You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as
> users other than root.
> 
> Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''.  man crontab for
> details.
> 
> Bill

I am being told the developer tried a user crontab without success. I've 
not suggested they try su yet though I dropped hints.

Still seems odd that setting the user to nobody in /etc/crontab did not 
work.

Dave

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