Cron problem/Documentation and Setup
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Thu Aug 19 05:27:00 GMT 2004
Larry Hall wrote:
> At 10:44 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>
>> So is P or /home off limits when it comes to cron? Why did this work
>> at my last company? I think it's probably due to the "public" share
>> point versus "non-public" share point (which I never totally
>> understood before) and I'm fearing that I will not be able to
>> convince the powers that be to change it! :-(
>
> Bingo!
>
> You can always resort to running cron as you instead of 'SYSTEM'. As
> long as you're the only user that needs to run under 'cron', that
> should work without changing the permissions of your network shares.
I'd hate to have to resort to that!
This doesn't explain why it worked at my last company and why I could
have sworn it used to work here up until about a week ago.
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