Cron Entries

[David Johnson]

One question is, I have a web application that needs to perform tasks as the
"www-data" user, rather than root. This is of course common. However we
want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would you recommend?





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[Andrew McMillan]

Post by David Johnson
One question is, I have a web application that needs to perform tasks
as the “www-data” user, rather than root. This is of course common.
However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would
you recommend?

Hi David,

To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
jobs that you need to run.

That's pretty much the whole reason for the existence of cron.d, in
fact.

Regards,
Andrew McMillan.

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[David Johnson]

Great! Thanks.

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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:49 PM
To: David Johnson
Subject: Re: Cron Entries

Post by David Johnson
One question is, I have a web application that needs to perform tasks
as the "www-data" user, rather than root. This is of course common.
However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would
you recommend?

Hi David,
To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
jobs that you need to run.
That's pretty much the whole reason for the existence of cron.d, in
fact.
Regards,
Andrew McMillan.
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[sean finney]

hi andrew, david,

Post by Andrew McMillan

as the ???www-data??? user, rather than root. This is of course common.
However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would
you recommend?

To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
jobs that you need to run.

or better yet, cron.hourly :)


sean

[David Johnson]

If I understand correctly, cron.hourly does not set the user executing the
commands to anything other than root.

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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 3:40 PM
To: Andrew McMillan
Subject: Re: Cron Entries
hi andrew, david,

Post by Andrew McMillan

as the ???www-data??? user, rather than root. This is of course

common.

Post by Andrew McMillan

However we want to run cron scripts on an hourly basis. What would
you recommend?

To do that you need to put a cron fragment into cron.d with the cron
jobs that you need to run.

or better yet, cron.hourly :)
sean

['sean finney']

Post by David Johnson
If I understand correctly, cron.hourly does not set the user executing the
commands to anything other than root.

right you are. cron.d is the way then... or have your script
in cron.hourly su - www-data if running as root.


sean