hey all, Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using "crontab -e":
*/5 * * * * news fetchnews Actually, I just follow the examples from previous lines, which are 0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 1 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 15 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 30 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons But, vixie seem cannot tell the user name from command, every time it will send me an system email says that root/news command not find. Can anybody tell me why it is so? Does vixie support to specify the user who run the command. Thank you. If not, is this a small bug in vixie ( when I read /usr/share/doc/vixie*/crontab.bz2, I saw exactly the same configuration)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
