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Re: Cron Entries



On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 11:56 -0600, David Johnson wrote:
> One question is, I have a web application that needs to perform tasks
> as the “www-data” user, rather than root.  This is of course common.
> However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis.  What would
> you recommend?

Hi David,

To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
jobs that you need to run.

That's pretty much the whole reason for the existence of cron.d, in
fact.

Regards,
					Andrew McMillan.

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