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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Execute Ubuntu 14.04 cronjob as non-root Post 303009419 by Neo on Thursday 14th of December 2017 08:30:58 AM
Old 12-14-2017
Since the cronjob executes as root; you can simply change your cron script to change the permissions and ownership (as you please) when the script executes.
 

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LDAP2REPOSITORY(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					LDAP2REPOSITORY(1)

NAME
ldap2repository - creating debian repositories cronjob for the GOsa FAI plugin. SYNOPSIS
ldap2repository [-hvnpej] [-c config] [-d outdir] [-r srvroot] [-i interface] [-a arch] [-P proxy] DESCRIPTION
ldap2repository is a script to create the cronjob for the local. debian repositories needed by GOsa FAI plugin. -c LDAP config file (default: /etc/ldap/ldap.conf) -d output dir (default: /etc/gosa/fai) -h display this help and exit -n skip cleanup for mirrors -p show progress in cronjob -v be verbose -i network interface (default: eth0) -j create a new /etc/cron.d/goto-fai-backend -r server root (default: /srv/www) -e ignore small errors -a processor architecture (default: i386) -P proxy (default: none) BUGS
Please report any bugs, or post any suggestions, to the GOsa mailing list <gosa-devel@oss.gonicus.de> or to <https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa> LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
This code is part of GOsa (<http://www.gosa-project.org>) Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@fbihome.de> 2007-2010 The GOsa project <gosa-devel@oss.gonicus.de> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. perl v5.10.0 2010-05-19 LDAP2REPOSITORY(1)
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