I am trying to use cron to run a daily backup script, the script checks to make sure that the person running it is root before it executes anything.

if [ "$USER" != "root" ]; then
echo "You must be root to run backup."
exit 1
fi


so far I have tried using root's crontab file with a like like this:

1 0 * * * /usr/local/sbin/backup

/usr/local/sbin/backup being the script that I want to run, I have also tried putting it into the crontab file with a line like this:

1 0 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/backup

everytime it comes back and tells me, "You must be root to run backup."

anyone have any ideas?

also, I am running it on fedora core 4

i haven't try usig root's cron, but you can copy your script into /etc/cron.daily if you lazy to trouble shoot.

see - http://www.jalix.org/ressources/linu...vrac/cron.html

thanks guys, the /etc/cron.daily worked perfectly