On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:38:07 -0500, Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I create a crontab and it runs, what uid/gid does it run with? > > I presume it's the uid of the user that has the crontab. But I've run > into a situation recently where root wasn't able to run a program from its > crontab that interacted with the serial port (bottlerocket was the > program).
Try running with the full path to the program. cron runs in a very limited environment, I think. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
