On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote:
As Galen noted, it's "man 5 crontab." I specified it because many systems
have two crontab man pages, one in section 1, the other in section 5. The
section 1 page becomes the default.
Paul,
I don't have a crontab manual in section 5. And what I was
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote:
The Linux distributions I use all have an /etc/cron.d directory that
allows you to run scripts under any UID, no sudo required.
Paul,
Yes, Slackware has an /etc/cron.d directory.
The modified crontab
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Galen Seitz wrote:
The syntax is:
man section_number something_to_lookup
so
man 5 crontab
galen,
It's been so long I've needed to specify a section I had to look for the
syntax and didn't find the proper one.
Many thanks,
Rich
On 1/2/24 08:46, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote:
The Linux distributions I use all have an /etc/cron.d directory that
allows you to run scripts under any UID, no sudo required.
Paul,
Yes, Slackware has an /etc/cron.d directory.
The modified crontab entries for
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote:
The Linux distributions I use all have an /etc/cron.d directory that
allows you to run scripts under any UID, no sudo required.
Paul,
Yes, Slackware has an /etc/cron.d directory.
The modified crontab entries for snippets in that directory are
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've added my username to /etc/sudoers. I have a script that needs
to run using sudo with a user rather than by root. When I run the
script's commands in a console I enter my password when requested by
sudo. How can I have the script provide the
I've added my username to /etc/sudoers. I have a script that needs to run
using sudo with a user rather than by root. When I run the script's commands
in a console I enter my password when requested by sudo. How can I have the
script provide the password? Or, do I modify /etc/sudoers to allow me
