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From: cor@hacktic.nl (Cor Bosman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: cron not executing new stuff...
Date: 27 Dec 1993 23:20:25 +0100
Organization: Hack-Tic, networking for the masses
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martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov (James Martin) writes:

>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'
>

Im probably missing something, but why not put that in the news cron?
Thats how I do it anyways. Maybe your cron cant handle entries for
different users?
Cor
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