[mrtg] Re: running under other id's for CRONTAB

[Scheidel, Greg]

I'm not a UNIX guru by any means, but I believe that you could simply login
as another user and execute 'crontab -e', which will bring up a crontab file
specific to that user ID, and anything you put in will run under that user
ID.

Out of curiosity, what exactly do you hope to accomplish by running it under
a different user ID?  The process will still be running on the same box and
using the same resources... ?

Greg S.

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From: as108 at daimlerchrysler.com [mailto:as108 at daimlerchrysler.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:55 AM
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Subject: [mrtg] running under other id's for CRONTAB

Anybody know anything about this??????



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Subject:  running under other id's for CRONTAB

Once I've got two instances of MRTG running on one box, it can start to
take a toll on the CPU.  Instead of creating another instance of MRTG
(copying the whole app to a different directory and running it there), can
I somehow run the program under another id besides root?  and how do I
specify that in the crontab file?

thanks much,

Andy



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