Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On 2004-03-15, Travis Crump penned:
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> > Monique Y. Herman wrote:
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> > > 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!

Additionally, popularity-contest only uses dpkg for "dpkg-query --show 
--showformat='\${status} \${package}\\n'|" which should even work as a 
normal user.  Indeed, the only reason it[pop-con] appears to need to run 
 as root is to write to /var/log/popularity-contest*[why not 
/var/(lib|cache)/popularity-contest/?], but I could be wrong.

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