https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251280 ------- Comment #2 from Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de 2007-03-08 01:31 MST ------- Please try to understand this problem: A specific application is to be restarted during non-working hours automatically when no administrator is present. The at(1) command would normally do the job. However the command to restart the application should be done as non-root, and that's the problem: Root cannot schedule a job for a user (the at(1) command lacks option "-u user"; crontab(1) has it), and the user has no permissions as explained. Now the mentioned sleep(1) would be an ugly workaround: When it's 14:00, and you want to start a command at 23:00, you could do a "sleep 32400; command". That's a poor replacement for at(1) that the admin cannot prevent as much as he doesn't want to see it. Therefore I think the at(1) restrictions are overly secure. Likewise un-restricting permissions though perlissions.local seems counter-productive. The defaults should make sense. As long as at(1) lacks "-u user", the "secure" setting is equivalent to having no at(1) command installed, and this just makes the user re-invent the wheel (most likely in less secure ways). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.