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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:13:31 -0700
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Larry Hall wrote:

> At 10:44 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote:
>
>> So is P or /home off limits when it comes to cron? Why did this work 
>> at my last company? I think it's probably due to the "public" share 
>> point versus "non-public" share point (which I never totally 
>> understood before) and I'm fearing that I will not be able to 
>> convince the powers that be to change it! :-(
>
> Bingo!
>
> You can always resort to running cron as you instead of 'SYSTEM'. As 
> long as you're the only user that needs to run under 'cron', that 
> should work without changing the permissions of your network shares.

I'd hate to have to resort to that!

This doesn't explain why it worked at my last company and why I could 
have sworn it used to work here up until about a week ago.
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