Re: Crontab v. Applescript & Command Line
Re: Crontab v. Applescript & Command Line
- Subject: Re: Crontab v. Applescript & Command Line
- From: "Neal A. Crocker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:37:14 -0800
Could a task started by cron use the su command to change its
ownership from root to some other user or start a process that would
be owned by some other user? If this works, it would amount to a 5th
option for Gary, wouldn't it?
Neal.
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:11:45 -0800
Subject: Re: Crontab v. Applescript & Command Line
Cc: applescript implementors <email@hidden>
To: Gary Beberman <email@hidden>
From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 03:04 PM, Gary Beberman wrote:
> If I have it right, these are my options:
>
> 1) Find a different timer to trigger this, one which can run under my
> ID.
>
> 2) Always work under root.
>
> 3) Find a way to kill the cron processes and restart them under my ID.
>
> 4) Try to change the crontab code (a real disaster if I do it).
That's pretty much it, yes. For what it's worth, we'll look into a
decent "scheduled task" interface that doesn't have all these problems
(and doesn't require you to learn the crontab format!)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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