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Old 10-16-2008
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Originally Posted by cv_pan
unfortunately, CRON is out of question due to security issues. its the company standard. Smilie
Curious as how CRON is a security problem. You can allow/disallow users from having their own CRON, and no one would have access to the others CRON settings.
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Old 10-17-2008
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Originally Posted by Ikon
Curious as how CRON is a security problem. You can allow/disallow users from having their own CRON, and no one would have access to the others CRON settings.
Yes I totally agree. But it is been justified as company standards..
It is funny because, we do use deamon jobs to run some of our scripts.

I wanted to explore if there was any other options.
 
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