[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cron best practice

[Bryan Iotti]

Very good question, curious myself

Could it be run as user "nobody"?

Bryan
On May 14, 2012 9:42 PM, "Mark Creamer" <whitetr6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for a bit of best practice advice. On Windows systems I
> usually create a job runner account with the correct permissions to
> run batch scripts when they need to be scheduled, so the jobs aren't
> tied to specific users whose passwords will change.
>
> So in OI, I have a similar need, to run a job nightly that will pull
> data from a neighboring server using a scp command run in a cron job.
> My thought is to create a user account and set up passwordless scp to
> facilitate scripting the scp task. Would it then be best to run the
> job in root's cron? Or from the shell of the user running the scp?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> --
> Mark
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