Re: [gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?

2005-07-04 Thread Felix Tiede
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a small number of logins on my gentoo box that I use for automated chores. I would prefer that they never have passwords, since they are run solely by cron jobs. However, if the login is locked then cron will no longer run the jobs -- I presume (without knowing

[gentoo-user] Crontab best practices: ideas anyone?

2005-07-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have a small number of logins on my gentoo box that I use for automated chores. I would prefer that they never have passwords, since they are run solely by cron jobs. However, if the login is locked then cron will no longer run the jobs -- I presume (without knowing for sure) that it's because