Re: crontab uid ?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:38:07 -0500, Kevin Coyner <kevin@rustybear.com> wrote:
> 
> When I create a crontab and it runs, what uid/gid does it run with?
> 
> I presume it's the uid of the user that has the crontab.  But I've run
> into a situation recently where root wasn't able to run a program from its
> crontab that interacted with the serial port (bottlerocket was the
> program).

Try running with the full path to the program.  cron runs in a very
limited environment, I think.

Patrick