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Re: What should I do about bug #121621?



also sprach Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org> [2001.12.28.1527 +0100]:
> webmin-status sets up a cro job for its user.  However there seems to be
> no good wa in Debian to remove a users crontab.  putting the cron jobs
> into /etc/cron.d seem like a possibility but then they would run as root
> not a particular user right?  What should I do?

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/ has all the user crontabs...
you'd have to make sure to modify them relatively rather than
absolutely.

bubt /etc/cron.d does give you a method to execute as a specific user.
it might even be the better choice.

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