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hey all, |
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Recently, I set up a local news server and want to fetch news by using |
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vixie cron. For security, I want to drop root to news ( only news and |
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root can run fetchnews). So I add one line in crontab by using |
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"crontab -e": |
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*/5 * * * * news fetchnews |
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Actually, I just follow the examples from previous lines, which are |
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0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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1 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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15 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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30 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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*/10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && |
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/usr/sbin/run-crons |
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But, vixie seem cannot tell the user name from command, every time it |
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will send me an system email says that root/news command not find. |
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Can anybody tell me why it is so? Does vixie support to specify the |
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user who run the command. Thank you. |
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If not, is this a small bug in vixie ( when I read |
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/usr/share/doc/vixie*/crontab.bz2, I saw exactly the same configuration)? |
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