RE: Cron Entries
If I understand correctly, cron.hourly does not set the user executing the
commands to anything other than root.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sean finney [mailto:seanius@seanius.net]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:40 PM
> To: Andrew McMillan
> Cc: David Johnson; debian-webapps@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Cron Entries
>
> hi andrew, david,
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 06:48:39AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > > as the ???www-data??? user, rather than root. This is of course
> common.
> > > However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would
> > > you recommend?
> >
> > To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
> > jobs that you need to run.
>
> or better yet, cron.hourly :)
>
>
> sean
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