Strange problem with crond ( more info )

[Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:51:04AM +0100, dballester at kernpharma.com wrote:

> 
> I had create a directory under /etc called cron.night_backup
> 
> Inside this directory, i copied the script.
> 
> I added a line in /etc/crontab like this:
> 
> 42 11 * * 1-5 root run-parts /etc/cron.night_backup
> 
> The script is executed by cron without problems when time comes.
> 

Are we done?

 Note that su(8) can confuse crontab and that if you are running
 inside of su(8) you should always use the -u option for safety’s
 sake.



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