On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:41, you wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 10:43, Mike Beattie wrote: > > Why not use your user crontab? > > > > /etc/crontab should really only be used for system maintenance tasks... > > Why is that? > > I have up to 12 lines in one machine's /etc/crontab... they're doing a > variety of things from log processing to doing a daily backup to more > log processing, which *could* be done as non-root I suppose. > > But I think having it all in one file is easier. > > Comments? "Never run processes as root unless you actually need to" is a very good general rule for 'safe computing'. Putting lines in /etc/crontab... which do not _need_ those root priviliges transgresses that general rule.
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
