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

Serge Arsenault boggles at openface.ca
Mon Dec 18 08:49:37 EST 2006


Oops you are right Justin...a serious omission there. I usually work
under NetBSD and use '-l' instead of '-' since it seems a bit more
intuitive to me. I understand, however, that this option doesn't exist
with all variants of su (e.g. the stock one with Ubuntu).

On Fri, 2006-15-12 at 15:41 -0500, Justin Alcorn wrote:
> You'll want to make it
> 
> su - <user> -c "remind [args]"
> 
> the '-' makes sure that the task runs with the correct environment
> for 
> the specified user. 




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