Hallo Noah, I set the UID to root however the same error occurs, cron emails me "permission denied"
Bernard, I removed output redirection however cron still sends me the same email with "Permission denied" On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Richard Zulu wrote: > > > Noah, > > > > The script can be run as a normal user however, access to the Identity > > file (Key) won't be granted thus the script has it's UID set to root > > so it can be run with root privileges. > > Actually it is not set to run with root priviledges. It will run as the > user cron. It would only run with root priviledges if the permissions were > rwsr-xr-x root root > > Root owning the script does not necessarily make the script run with root > priviledges unless you set the SUID bit. > > > Noah. > > -- Richard Zulu gtug lead, Kampala (Uganda) http://kampala.gtugs.org
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