Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!we13!otuxa!ll1!sb1!burl!duke!goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP From: goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: enhanced cron.c, anyone? Message-ID: <995@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 13:30:24 EDT Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.995 Posted: Wed Jul 20 13:30:24 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 05:26:51 EDT Organization: University of Central Florida Lines: 15 A recent problem here underscores the need for cron to run programs under effective id's other than root; there is no mechanism in cron to permit that. I can envision a simple hack to cron.c that would add two fields to crontab for specifying uid and gid under which the program on the given line would be run. Before I start hacking away, has anyone done this? Also, are there any other worthwhile enhancements to cron.c out there? Oh, yes, we are running 4.1bsd on an 11/780. -- Ben Goldfarb uucp: {decvax,duke}!ucf-cs!goldfarb ARPA: goldfarb.ucf-cs@Rand-Relay