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A script to manage networked software updates
Authored by: Greedo on Apr 16, '04 12:31:55PM

Just a quick clarification: just because a script runs as a cron job, doesn't mean it runs as root, as this hint might seem to suggest.

Each normal user as a cronjob as well, which you can see by doing crontab -l from a shell.

To see the root user's cron jobs, do sudo crontab -l, and to edit them, do sudo crontab -e.



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A script to manage networked software updates
Authored by: jlevitsk on Apr 20, '04 12:51:39PM

Actually in my case it does because I am using Fink with Anacron to run it so when I put it in /sw/etc/cron.daily it does. Also if it was put as /etc/daily.local it would run as root as well. I would not use a user crontab for this because it should run independent of any user being logged in.



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