cron question

[albright]

I use cronie and was under the impression that if I put a
line in /etc/crontab like this:

1 * * * * wesi72600 /usr/bin/offlineimap

then at 1 minute after every hour offlineimap will run AS USER wesi72600

but I just got an error from offlineimap that a config file was missing
from ROOT's home directory

Obviously, I do not understand how cronie / cron is working.

Any advice would be appreciated.
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[eccerr0r]

I don't know much about cronie, but classic vixie-cron does not support changing users directly (the "do one thing and do it well" mantra) - so you do this by using su -c as a part of the command line in crontab.

However you have to keep in mind that you may need the script to change directories before running.

Or of course you can put it in that user's crontab file.
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[steveL]

[albright]

thanks for the advice, which is good

but ... the problem was that offlineimap for reasons I do not
understand required its config file to be at / so I misunderstood
the message

cronie can run jobs as particular users without problem

I am the idiot
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