[SAC] Enable cron log on ProjectsVM

[Jeff McKenna]

ok i'm already doing that...i guess i am confused.  sorry please ignore 
my question.

-jeff



On 10-10-05 11:59 AM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
>
> On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:56 AM, ext Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>> I'd like to enable a cron log on the ProjectsVM (to debug present and
>> future problems for the mapserver.org hosted site).  My user jmckenna
>> however does not seem to have the privilege to do so:
>>
>> ********
>> Sorry, user jmckenna is not allowed to execute '/usr/bin/nano
>> /etc/rsyslog.conf' as root on projects.osgeo.osuosl.org
>> ********
>
> Er, I don't know what that file is, but yeah, don't do that :)
>
>
>> What is recommended by SAC for my situation?
>
> 1. If it's something you'd like to run for 'yourself', then you
>     can type 'crontab -e' and enter a cronjob there.
> 2. If it's something that you'd like to run for a project, you
>     should be able to 'sudo -u mapserver crontab -e' so that you
>     can edit MapServer's crontab directly, and use that to prevent
>     some issues with permissions and the like.
>
> -- Chris
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
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Jeff McKenna
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