Logging In as UUCP to Set crontab

[John Palmer]

In article <25 at raysnec.UUCP> shwake at raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>markd at silogic.UUCP (Mark DiVecchio) writes:
>
>>I don't quite understand how I get a new uucp owned crontab into
>>/usr/spool/cron/crontabs. 
>
>>To do this for uucp, I need to login as uucp but, of course, the login
>>shell is uucico so that won't work. 

Real simple: Login as root, and do this:

    cd /usr/spool/cron/crontabs
    cp /dev/null uucp
    chown uucp uucp
    chgrp uucp uucp
    chmod 644 uucp

Then, edit the file, put in the commands, kill the current cron process
(I'm SORRY - but regardless of what SCO says, the cron process 
DOES NOT periodically
 check the crontab files and update its internal database)
and then restart cron by typing /etc/cron.

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