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RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Crontab Perl
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Crontab Perl
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Jan 28 08:30:23 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> You need to execute the script as a user. I.E.
>
> 00 08 * * * username perl /path/to/schedule.cron
>
> I wouldn't execute it as root, because the client could put
> malicious instructions in the pl script.
>
I run a script daily. The crontab is owned by a user. It doesn't have
the username in the crontab and runs just fine.
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C2003 Dan Kriwitsky
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