proper use of su
Phil Ngai
phil at amdcad.UUCP
Fri Mar 29 03:31:34 AEST 1985
On my 780 running 4.2, I sometimes want cron to execute certain shell
scripts under user ids other than root, such as uucp and news. Sometimes
I can do:
/bin/su news < shell.script
and sometimes I have to do:
echo shell.script | /bin/su news
Could someone explain this? thanks
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