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From: martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov (James Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: cron not executing new stuff...
Date: 27 Dec 1993 18:07:22 GMT
Organization: Dept of Energy, EH-15
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Reply-To: martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov (James Martin)
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I've been trying to get cron to execute a command every 10 minutes 
with no success.
I'm running NetBSD 0.9 on a 486/50 w/8mb RAM. The tab line I'm trying
to get to run is:

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /usr/bin/su news -c '/usr/local/news/bin/nntpsend'

which flushes new articles sent to the INN server, which is the box's
primary function. I've done a "crontab -u root -r root", and rebooted,
etc... but no luck. cron is still running daily, weekly, monthly stuff, but
I can't get it to do anything new...
Is there something I'm missing?

			Thanks - James
			martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov