Re: cron directory temporaries

Noel Butler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <1353845559.23595.35.camel@tardis>
On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 22:05 -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote:


> FWIW I don't recommend this. Even if I am the only one logging in, 
> I'll login to a non-root account and use su/sudo when higher 
> privileges are needed.
> 


If  its a stand alone server, nothing wrong with it, I in fact would get
pissed at any staffer who gave themselves a user account on a mail or
web server - root account, with keys access only for them :)


> My conclusion: it's sloppy and could be considered a bug. So the 
> final suggestion, choose one of these:
> 
> 4a. Report the issue to the project (I would not call it "bug" at 
> first.)


Good luck I reported it a loooooooooooooooong time ago, heard nothing
back, might fire off another one now, since this reminds me of it, but
wont hold my breath, maybe its time Pat gave consideration to Vixies.


> My choice: the last one.


Pretty close to the mark, I mean, its not like crontabs are edited every
day, if they are, something is done inefficient :)

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