[Remind-Fans] Remind & Anacron & Non-Root-Owned Files - HAWLP!

[Serge Arsenault]

Hi Mike,

One way of doing this is to use the su command when invoking the remind
command and specifying which user it should be run as:

su <username> -c "remind <remind args>"

This will effectively run the remind command as if it were run by
username.

Serge

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:43 -0500, Mike Harris wrote:
> I've got a bit of a hardcore Unix question that is tangentially related to Remind.
> 
> I have been trying to set up the daily e-mailing of Remind output -- in the form of a 'daily' calendar and a two-week calendar -- to me.  The latest incarnation involves 'anacron,' a variation on cron that accounts for when a system is sleeping (something cron doesn't account for).
> 
> However, the problem seems to be that when Remind is run by anacron, it is run as root, creating an empty message body.  The message is:
> 
> > SECURITY: Won't read non-root-owned file when running as root!
> > Error reading file /Users/mharris/.reminders: Can't open file
> > Null message body; hope that's ok
> 
> If anyone has any thoughts along this line as to what I might be able to do, I'd appreciate it.  I'm not extremely expert in Unix, although I have a passing knowledge.  I do know that anacron does not have the "run as user" column that cron does.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has thoughts, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Mike
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