On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Terri I. wrote: > I have a task that I would like to have run automatically throughout the > day without user intervention (guessing I would use a cron job to run a > rake task). It will be reading in an RSS feed and using that data to > update a database. The application is secure, using https and requiring > user certs. So how do you go about having an automated task run with > basically the rights of the server, as opposed to passing in user > credentials? ---- cron tasks run as the user
su - root crontab -e su - administrator crontab -e 2 different crontabs executed as each user Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
