Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?
On 2004-03-15, Travis Crump penned:
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> Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> When entries in /etc/cron.weekly are run, what user/group are they
>> run as?
>>
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> Whatever user it says in /etc/crontab. On mine it is root.
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Odd. I'm getting an error running popularity-contest because it says it
doesn't have permission to run dpkg. According to /etc/crontab, it's
running as root, and root certainly does have permission to run dpkg!
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monique
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