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From: richard@interverse.com (Richard Gilligan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Is it bad to be in lots of groups?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 11:59:36 -0800
Organization: Cinenet Communications,Internet Access,Los Angeles;310-301-4500
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Message-ID: <richard-0510951159360001@island.interverse.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.85.6.70
I get this message everyday:
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:40:00 GMT
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: richard
Subject: Cron <richard@cosmos> /var/www/software/hitstats/qndstat.pl
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/usr/home/richard>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=richard>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=richard>
cron: richard is in too many groups, using first 16
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Question: Why does cron care how many groups I am in?
Question: Am I setting myself up for other problems by being in *too many*
groups?
I have worked around by giving myself another user that is not in lots of
groups to run my cron jobs. I'm just wondering what might slap me in the
back of the head in the future.
Why so many groups?
Each of our web sites has its own user and group, programers that need to
work on the site are assigned to the group. I work on lots of sites.
TIA
--
Richard Gilligan
Web Site Software Design and Implementation email richard@interverse.com
InterVerse Communications phone 310-392-2451
171 Pier Ave. #141 fax 310-581-1925
Santa Monica CA 90405 server http://interverse.com