/etc/cron

[Larry Campbell]

> 	We have a PDP-11/44 here running 2.9BSD. I've found that programs
> run by cron get the 'daemon' user id.
> Is this correct behavior?
> If not, should I alter things so it runs as 'root'? (As our 3B20 SysV2.2 does)
> Could this change be hazardous? Does cron really *need* to be run as 'daemon'?
> -- 
> Edward C. Bennett
> UUCP: ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!ukecc!edward

4.2BSD's cron runs things under 'root', which seems to be OK if you're
careful about what you run from crontab.  
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