On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:47:53AM +0000, g wrote: > as a question of curiousness, and 'wat' from svr5 days, have you tried > giving ownership of script to root? I would suggest submitting it as a root cron job. But go over the script very, very carefully to make sure there are no security holes. > also, if you want backup to run only after you are logged off, or after > you have done something needing backup, have script check for 'filename' > and then delete 'filename' as part of closing. this way, you can run > 'touch filename' to enable. One thing to remember about cleanup in scripts--use trap. E.g., TEMPFILE="/usr/tmp/foo.$$"; ... trap "rm -f $TEMPFILE" 0; It's useful for many other things, of course, but a very common use for trap is to specify actions on exit. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
