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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!fauern!news.th-darmstadt.de!iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de!deeken From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: cron not executing new stuff... Date: 28 Dec 1993 11:39:59 +0100 Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI Lines: 23 Message-ID: <deeken.757075046@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> References: <2fn899$bje@twitch.ns.doe.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: spelunke.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de 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' >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? Yup, two facts :) First, su(1) on NetBSD 0.9 doesn't support the option '-c <commands>'. Second, the cron daemon on NetBSD supports crontabs on a per-user base. Take a look at the command 'crontab'. Hannes