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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!att-out!rutgers!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: cron not executing new stuff... Message-ID: <CIqLp0.y9@twwells.com> Date: 28 Dec 93 08:45:57 GMT References: <2fn899$bje@twitch.ns.doe.gov> Organization: None, Mt. Laurel, NJ Lines: 20 In article <2fn899$bje@twitch.ns.doe.gov>, James Martin <martinj@havoc.ns.doe.gov> wrote: : 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? Yes. Su was "improved" to not have a -c option. You have to do something like echo /usr/local/news/bin/nntpsend | su news instead. (Which is *not* equivalent but probably would be close enough for this.) However, you really should run it from the "news" crontab and not use su.