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Re: Cron runs as SYSTEM, cron jobs run as administrator
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:42:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cron runs as SYSTEM, cron jobs run as administrator
- References: <461999400529D64CBA3288B4A8EC21C5170B47@correiorj01.cetip.com.br>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 28 17:30, Sergio Valverde wrote:
> Cron is running as SYSTEM. Is it possible to run cron jobs as SYSTEM too,
> instead of administrator (id 500)?
>
> ps -ef
>
> UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND
> SYSTEM 12004 1 ? Apr 20 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
> SYSTEM 12684 12004 ? Apr 20 /usr/sbin/sshd
> Administ 6068 1 con 11:10:47 /usr/bin/bash
> SYSTEM 11776 1 ? 15:37:59 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
> SYSTEM 1488 11776 ? 15:37:59 /usr/sbin/cron
> Administ 16488 1 con 15:38:11 /usr/bin/bash
> Administ 16992 1 con 15:38:50 /usr/bin/bash
> SYSTEM 6668 1488 ? 15:40:00 /usr/sbin/cron
> Administ 11288 6668 ? 15:40:00 /usr/bin/sh
> Administ 11756 16488 con 15:40:00 /usr/bin/ps
>
> process 11288 is a script running as a cron job but UID is Administ (id
> 500), while PPID 6668 (cron) is UID SYSTEM (id 18).
> When I run the same script from command line, it runs as id 10500
> (Administrator).
> I've already searched the mailing lists.
> Any hint?
man cron
Corinna
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