Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site maynard.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!wjh12!maynard!campbell From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: /etc/cron Message-ID: <178@maynard.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 07:43:06 EST Article-I.D.: maynard.178 Posted: Wed Oct 30 07:43:06 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 02:25:33 EST References: <304@ukecc.UUCP> Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA Lines: 18 > 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'? > -- > Edward C. Bennett > UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward 4.2BSD's cron runs things under 'root', which seems to be OK if you're careful about what you run from crontab. -- Larry Campbell decvax!genrad The Boston Software Works, Inc. \ 120 Fulton St. seismo!harvard!wjh12!maynard!campbell Boston MA 02109 / / ihnp4 cbosgd ARPA: maynard.UUCP:campbell@harvard.ARPA