Hello all! I've written a patch to Cron.sh to actually allow using the OTRS_USER option. Additionally, enumerating the available cron jobs gets improved. The patch is attached and available under: http://wiki.robertkehl.de/index.pl?PatchImproveOtrsCron With kind regards, Robert Kehl --- bin/Cron.sh +++ bin/Cron.sh @@ -21,17 +21,19 @@ # -- CURRENTUSER=`whoami` -OTRS_HOME=$HOME -#CRON_USER=" -u $RUNASUSER "; -CRON_USER="" -if test $CURRENTUSER = root; then +if test "$CURRENTUSER" == 'root'; then + if test "$2" == ""; then echo "Run this script just as OTRS user! Or use 'Cron.sh {start|stop|restart} OTRS_USER'!" exit 5 + else + su - $2 -c $0 $1 + exit + fi fi # find otrs root -#OTRS_ROOT=/opt/OpenTRS +OTRS_HOME=`getent passwd $CURRENTUSER | awk -F: '{ print $6 }'` if test -e $OTRS_HOME/var/cron; then OTRS_ROOT=$OTRS_HOME else @@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ # start # ------------------------------------------------------ start) - if mkdir -p $CRON_DIR; cd $CRON_DIR && ls * |grep -v '.dist'|grep -v '.rpm'| grep -v CVS | grep -v Entries | grep -v Repository | grep -v Root | xargs cat > $CRON_TMP_FILE && crontab $CRON_USER $CRON_TMP_FILE; then + if mkdir -p $CRON_DIR && find $CRON_DIR ! -name *.dist ! -name *.rpm ! -path "*/CVS/*" -type f | xargs cat > $CRON_TMP_FILE && crontab $CRON_TMP_FILE; then rm -rf $CRON_TMP_FILE echo "(using $OTRS_ROOT) done"; exit 0;