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List:       unison-users
Subject:    Re: [unison-users] Cron Jobs with Unison
From:       "Benjamin C. Pierce" <bcpierce () cis ! upenn ! edu>
Date:       2004-05-15 13:44:02
Message-ID: 17058.1084628642 () saul ! cis ! upenn ! edu
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> > Id like some suggestions on how best to set up a cron job using
> > Unison.  What I have currently is having individual users setting up
> > their own individual crontabs.  The problem however is running unison
> > from the cron, since by default any system process is run with user
> > nobody and group none.  By default Unison looks into the user's
> > .unison directory, however when run with a cronjob under the user
> > nobody, individual user profiles are never really accessed.  
> 
> Have you tried setting the USER environment variable?

The environment variable to set is called UNISON.  See the manual.

    Benjamin





 
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