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Sane · Oct 31st, 2007, 12:13 AM

I'm X11ing into Redhat 4.

The error message is the permissions error when it tries to delete/modify.

So by default, what username does a cron run under? As far as I can tell, it has been running under the crontab's user, as it has been for my other cron jobs... which is what I need for this cron job too... so I'm pretty sure it's got the user right. But that would be the same user that it works as a shell command with!

Oct 31st, 2007, 12:13 AM	#6
Sane Programming Guru Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Ontario Posts: 2,035 Rep Power: 6	Re: Weird .Cron Error (Too lazy to sign up for a Linux forum) I'm X11ing into Redhat 4. The error message is the permissions error when it tries to delete/modify. So by default, what username does a cron run under? As far as I can tell, it has been running under the crontab's user, as it has been for my other cron jobs... which is what I need for this cron job too... so I'm pretty sure it's got the user right. But that would be the same user that it works as a shell command with!