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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: httpd through cron Date: 18 Jul 1996 10:26:43 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4sl00j$bn@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4s88g3$krt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sfas7$beb@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] James L Fox (jlfox+@pitt.edu) wrote: : I have been running tests and I think the problem is more : fundamental to at and crontab here at my installation. : A trivial shell script that copies a file from one place to : another in a test directory works as expected from the : foreground but will not work from crontab or at unless I : make the directory writeable to the world! And then, the : file thus created shows an owner "32766". What does your 'crontab -l' say ? If I set up the following: 22 * * * * rm -f /tmp/Crontest; touch /tmp/Crontest and crontab it, it gives me a file owned by the user that 'crontab'd the above. The only thing I can suspect is that your administrator has spawned crontab as user nobody.... : I'm posting to a local unix group here and writing to the : unix keepers as well. However, if someone here knows what : they have done to crontab and at, feel free!! Try something like 22 * * * * id and see if it thinks it's the right id. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....