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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
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Posted: Sun Oct 27 20:16:34 1985
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Organization: Univ. of Ky. Engineering Computing Center
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	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

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