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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net .NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)803-2201 MOB: +64(272)DEBIAN OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Planning an election? Call us! -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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