--=-oQEuhGO7y6ktPlsVetUp Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Probably root. Look at your /etc/crontab and there should be about 5 lines with run-parts. Here's mine: # run-parts 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0 root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.monthly And you can see that run-parts is run as root. You can make scripts run as a different user simply by putting the command in 'su USER -c "COMMAND" '. On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:08, Jim wrote: > I decided that one way to back up a database is to write a bash script to= run=20 > mysqldump. I know that I can put the script in /etc/cron.weekly and have= it=20 > execute every week. My question is what user will the cron job run as? --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-oQEuhGO7y6ktPlsVetUp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA+A4nF/wbq/C6yyPcRAoIfAJ4wVGpxAdIzulk1O7fAmAf7Qq3V5ACgk+20 J9FLqRh+ZmzvNg6lUad2XwM= =0SHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oQEuhGO7y6ktPlsVetUp--