Running C programs with cron ???

[Larry Campbell]

> Has anyone experienced problems with the 'system()' call within a C
> program not being executed properly when the program is executed via
> cron?  ...

Your problem may be that in some Unix implementations, the first thing
cron does is

	setuid(1);

which means it (and its children) probably doesn't have permission to
write in any log files you might be trying to use to leave tracks.
I've found that removing the setuid makes cron much more useful.
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