Re: setgid crontab
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 08:25, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 03-Aug-03, 11:37 (CDT), Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> > (As a user, what I really want is a .crontab file in my home directory,
> > so I can put it under revision control.)
>
> One potential problem (or issue) I see with this is automounted home
> directories. A file that was there while the user was logged in and then
> disappeared might not have the effect you want. Or it might - I can see
> arguments both ways.
Also you don't want the main copy of cron to search auto-mounted user home
directories. If you do that then a failure of the NFS server will put cron
in "D" state...
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