Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Execute Ubuntu 14.04 cronjob as non-root
Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Execute Ubuntu 14.04 cronjob as non-root Post 303009420 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 14th of December 2017 08:31:01 AM
Old 12-14-2017
Pick another user, go into
Code:
crontab

as that user. Create a new entry for the job. The user should be one with suitable permissions to run other code later on against the downloaded file. Hopefully you have a group or some special acl that can allow this.

Make sure that the script does not require advanced permissions to run. This means setting permissions on the directory-ies where the script lives, and on the destination directory tree.
This User Gave Thanks to jim mcnamara For This Post:
cmccabe
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

need to have a cronjob which will execute certain scripts every hr

Hi My question needs two answers how to write scripts to update a table in oracle db based on the result of the number of record counts for example i need to execute the following script every hour awk '{sum++;}END{for(i in sum) {print i, sum}}' filename here everyhour the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: aemunathan
3 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check a condition in cronjob to execute a sh file

Hi, I need to execute a crontab based on a condition where one SH file should be executed only based on the output of a file in a folder. I have written the following cron job which is not working. 00 01 * * * read a < /px/batch/reslut.txt && && sh /px/batch/check.sh where my... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: shanth_chandra
2 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to execute cronjob running in a different machine?

Hi, I am developing 1 script in which I need to execute one cron job running in different server and my script is in different server. so can any one help me to execute the cronjob set in different server. Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mridul10_crj
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Execute Shell Script from CRONJOB

Hi Users, I am Newbie to linux and cron. I have a requirement to run a job at 8 AM every Sunday. I am using RHEL 5. Based on the hints through google search I created crontab and added entry to call the shell script which will in turn login to Oracle user and execute a pl/sql block. ... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: reachravi70
1 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

expect telnet script execute by cronjob

hi, please help, keep getting this bolded error and look it up and people say its your environment variable though i tried to set it manually in expect..it run fine if i run it manually but once i run it by cronjob it error below..i tried to comment out ip/login info with *.. logfile:: START... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: cssanangeles
0 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cronjob to be execute today at 9pm

HI Folks, Sorry for this basic confusion but please help me. i want to execute one script at 9pm today. i want make this as schedule so it can execute automatically. So am doing like this. 21 10 24 4 <here what can i keep) /tmp/stemp/testcron.ksh Can you please help on this? ... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: coolboy98699
6 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Unable to execute glance from cronjob

Hi I am writing a script to get the CPU and memory utilization periodically from glance command. Wrote a script which consists of below two lines Script name : Utilization.sh #!/bin/sh glance -iterations 1 | sed -n '/Util/p/'| awk '!/Disk/'| awk '!/Swap/' >> file.txt I am able to run the... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shravani
5 Replies

8. AIX

Cronjob question about root emails.

I'm running a few cronjobs under a differnt user name that basically do the same thing: /usr/bin/find /home/userid/userid/archives -mtime +30 -type f -exec /usr/bin/gzip -1vN {} \\\; ; /usr/bin/mv /home/userid/userid/archives/*.gz /msgs/archive_msgs >/dev/null 2>&1 Seems to be working except... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: aixnj
12 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cronjob for root password change.

Hi, I am writing a cronjob which changes default root password to some designated password(set) after 15 days. The requirement for same is because i need to give application team root access for first 15 days, but after that the default password should be changed, now I want to automate the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: nixhead
3 Replies

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Cronjob not running on Ubuntu 14.04

I have created a test cronjob using crontab -e that runs a script at /home/cmccabe/cron.sh. I am not sure the script doesn't run though I can call it in terminal. Thank you :). crontab -e (run script sat at 6:10pm)? 10 18 * * 6 /home/cmccabe/cron.sh contents of cron.sh #!/bin/bash... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cmccabe
5 Replies

LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

check-permissions

check-permissions(1M)					  System Administration Commands				     check-permissions(1M)

NAME

       check-permissions - check permissions on mail rerouting files

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/check-permissions [login]

DESCRIPTION

       The   check-permissions script is intended as a migration aid for sendmail(1M). It checks the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file for all configured
       alias files, and checks the alias files for :include: files. It also checks for certain .forward files. For each file  that   check-permis-
       sions checks, it verifies that none of the parent directories are group- or world-writable. If any directories are overly permissive, it is
       reported. Otherwise it reports that no unsafe directories were found.

       As to which .forward files are checked, it depends on the arguments included on the command line. If no	argument  is  given,  the  current
       user's home directory is checked for the presence of a  .forward file. If any arguments are given, they are assumed to be valid logins, and
       the home directory of each one is checked.

       If the special argument ALL is given,  the passwd entry in the  /etc/nsswitch.conf file is checked, and all password entries  that  can	be
       obtained through the switch file are checked. In large domains, this can be time-consuming.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       login	       Where login is a valid user name, checks the home directory for	login.

       ALL	       Checks the home directory of  all users.

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf   Defines enviornment for	sendmail

       /etc/mail/aliases       Ascii mail aliases file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       getent(1M), sendmail(1M), aliases(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    10 Nov 2003 					     check-permissions(1M)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 02:08 AM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy