Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2516] Elegant solution?

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting James Cameron (quozl@us.netrek.org):
> Bob,
> 
> It appears that both Debian and Red Hat use the /etc/cron.daily
> directory for package scripts that have to be executed daily.
> 
> Although this may not be particularly portable to some of the less
> popular distributions, I reckon we should go this way.
> 

Problem is stuff is run as root in /etc/cron.daily.

% cat /etc/crontab 
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

I do not think we want updated running as root. The alternative would be to
add something to crontab, like

02 4 * * * games run-parts /usr/games/etc/cron.daily

Or something like that.


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