Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukecc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: /etc/cron Message-ID: <304@ukecc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 27-Oct-85 20:16:34 EST Article-I.D.: ukecc.304 Posted: Sun Oct 27 20:16:34 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:07:02 EST Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center Lines: 19 We have a PDP-11/44 here running 2.9BSD. I've found that programs run by cron get the 'daemon' user id. Is this correct behavior? If not, should I alter things so it runs as 'root'? (As our 3B20 SysV2.2 does) Could this change be hazardous? Does cron really *need* to be run as 'daemon'? Thans for any and all replies... -- Edward C. Bennett UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward /* A charter member of the Scooter bunch */ "Goodnight M.A."