Linux – running anacron as non root issue

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I was tring to run anacron as non root. But my RHEL doens't have -S option on anacron.
Since the default spool directory for anacron is /var/spool/anacron, does it mean as a non root user, I can't run anacron since I don't have write permissions to it? Thanks,

Here is the man page for anarcon on my RHEL.

NAME
anacron – runs commands periodically

SYNOPSIS
anacron [-s] [-f] [-n] [-d] [-q] [-t anacrontab] [job] …
anacron -u [-t anacrontab] [job] …
anacron [-V|-h]

Best Answer

If you want anacron to run as a non-privileged user, you'll need to use an existing user or create an anacron user and set the anacron spool to this non-privileged user.

# useradd anacron
# groupadd anacron
# chown root.anacron /var/spool/anacron
# chmod g+w /var/spool/anacron
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