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Re: cron path problem



Hans du Plooy <hansdp@newingtoncs.co.za> writes:

> I thought that cron would run as user cron, but there's no such user.  Who 
> does it run as?  Or how can I set the path that cron has access to?

If you're talking /etc/crontab, then it is run as root unless you tell
it to do otherwise.  If it's your ~/.crontab, then it runs as you.

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