RE: Cron Entries
Great! Thanks.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew McMillan [mailto:andrew@catalyst.net.nz]
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:49 PM
> To: David Johnson
> Cc: debian-webapps@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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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