fcron help (should be simple)

[TBKDan]

Ok.. I hope it's simple. I'm running gentoo 2005.1, and I installed fcron (it seemed to work better than dcron) and crontab. A problem that I'm having is that I want a command to be executed by a specific user, but if I try to access crontab with that user, I get permission denied (since that user is neither root nor in the cron group, he cannot access /usr/bin/fcron). So basically my question is this: how can I get a crontab under the root's crontab to execute a command as if it were another user (not root), or how can I allow regular users to create a crontab file for themselves?

[tukachinchila]

I don't think you can run fcrontab as a non-root user (unless you use sudo maybe). You can edit individual user's crontabs as root though:

[TBKDan]

Ah, thank you I had checked crontab's man pages but didn't see anything along the lines of user, but I didn't check fcrontab Thanks for the info, I'll find out if it worked at 4AM lol.