From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cron
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 02:33:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00c301c07275$e82d5900$8692fea9@coma> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001230151952.8AF2D199E6@mail.cse.psu.edu>
From: William Staniewicz <wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:16 AM
Subject: [9fans] cron
> Can cron be run on a standalone system? The manual
> says it can only run on an authentication server.
not that i'm an expert, but it makes sense. given
the authentication method plan 9 has, cron is a bit
tricky. running it on the auth server is then
understandable.
you auth yourself by proving who you are, whereas
on unix you had a uid, root, setuid and all that
dangerous stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-30 15:33 UTC|newest]
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2000-12-30 21:16 William Staniewicz
2000-12-30 15:33 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
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2000-12-30 16:40 Russ Cox
2000-12-31 0:11 ` arisawa
2000-12-30 16:12 presotto
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