[NTLUG:Discuss] crontab issue

[Rusty Haddock]

Fred James wrote:
    >All
    >If I use a crontab entry such as
    >
    >42 * * * * su - username -c /home/username/program argument1 argument2 
    >argument3 2> /tmp/errorfile

If this is the system crontab (in /etc) then the 6th field
is a user name to run the program as.

And don't use the '-' argument to 'su'.  This makes the shell a login
shell and I'm sure it's is expecting stdin to be attached to a tty line.

	-Rusty-
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