When the date was Tuesday 10 February 2009, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: > I'm having a problem trying to execute the "crontab" command from a perl > script. > > When i call this command from the SNMP system, i get this: > > "must be privileged to use -u" > > the procedure is... > > 1. i create a cron file for a particular user in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username > 2. i run "crontab -u username /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username"
You are not running the script as root. You may want to consider setuiding your script (chmod +s) and install perl-suid. -- Michael Iatrou (txnb) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
