Running cron jobs as nobody
    Bill Campbell 
    freebsd at celestial.com
       
    Thu Oct  2 15:36:48 UTC 2008
    
    
  
You can use ``su -c '/path/to/command' username'' to run scripts as
users other than root.
Another way is to use ``crontab -u username''.  man crontab for
details.
Bill
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