apache account to run cronjob ?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:13:39AM -0700, M E Fieu wrote:
> How to settle this issue.  Use apache to run cron job
> to generate those file ? But my apache user account
> has no shell configured. /bin/nologin  I need to
> enable its shell ?

Make a group named "mysecret". Put apache in that group -- `gpasswd mysecret
-a apache`, and create a non-privileged user account and put that in same
group, and have that user run the cron job and make the data mode 640
(That's "-rw-r-----"). And restart apache.

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