[Gllug] Advanced versions of cron for scheduling

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Jul 18 20:12:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Robert Newson yowled:
> All you need is a program to drop privs (from root to required
> group/user) which then exec(2)s the required program/script to
> actually run.  (Just like cron, login, su, etc do?)  Then put this
> priv dropper into the boot sequence where you want the program to
> start.

Sounds like a job for userv :)

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