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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Subject: Re: cron not executing new stuff...
References: <2fn899$bje@twitch.ns.doe.gov> <2fnn3oINN5eb@xs4all.hacktic.nl>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 12:06:43 GMT
Message-ID: <CIquzM.Gr9@veda.is>
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cor@hacktic.nl (Cor Bosman) writes:
>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'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Could this be the problem? Normal BSD su ignores -c, so you either need a
patched su or 'echo /usr/local/news/bin/nntpsend | su news'
>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?
There may be reasons to let root crontab execute commands for other users,
for some reason (can't remember why) I had to put some of the C-news cron
jobs into the root crontab, su'd to news. They would not work otherwise.
However, nntpsend works fine from the news crontab for me.
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adam@veda.is