On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 01:29:38PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:02:13PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
...
>>I've now added a little workaround for this subtle problem to the rc
>>command starting with openpkg-20030202-20030202. Just try it out.
>>Details: http://cvs.openpkg.org/chngview?cn=7230
>
>Building it now.  Looks reasonable.

Looks can be deceiving.  Testing this on SuSE 8.1, running cron-3.0.1 (SuSE
distribution, not openpkg), the ``su'' doesn't seem to be executing at all
for non root users.  It is executing that part of the script (I added a
command to copy $tmpfile after the ``su'' command, and that worked).

Bill
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