From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!duke!mike Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Argh! My program spazzes when cron runs it! Article-I.D.: duke.2573 Posted: Mon Sep 27 10:14:00 1982 Received: Thu Sep 30 08:26:32 1982 I have a frustrating problem (to me anyway). I have a program that records some accounting information, setuid to root. When I myself sit at a terminal and call up the program, it works fine. When it is run by cron via crontab, it doesn't open the accounting file regardless of the permissions. I have tried the following glitches: saying alias root /usr/bin/foo in crontab giving foo a controlling tty in crontab using >/dev... and