Re: [Pyatcron-devel-list] Got root?

[Julien Olivier]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:08, Brian Dee wrote:
> Hey, just doing some thinking and wondering how we're going to write
> the crontab files. They're stored in /var/spool/cron which is, by
> default, only readable/writeable by root. So, we're either going to
> have to do it through pam or sudo or something.
> 
> Also, the files themselves insist that you shouldn't write to them
> directly, saying that you must edit the master first. This is normally
> done by crontab -e, writing out the file, and then when it is saved,
> it is installed automagically. How do we do that? 

There is a kcron application for KDE. It enables non-root users to write
crontab without needing the root password. So I guess it's possible. If
nobody knows how to do it, we could simply look at kcron's code. After
all, it's GPL :)
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _______________________________________________
> Pyatcron-devel-list mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pyatcron-devel-list
-- 
Julien Olivier <address@hidden>