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From: jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: httpd through cron
Date: 16 Jul 1996 05:55:19 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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In article <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
James L Fox <jlfox+@pitt.edu> wrote:
>
>---------
>Note:
>I know this group is FreeBSD and not SunOs or CERN but I also
>know that many posters/readers here are running web servers,
>understand cron, and might want to try to do what I'm doing
>with Apache on FreeBSD.
>---------
>
Some were confused by my mention of Apache in this context.
Although I am having problems launching CERN httpd, I thought
those in this group were more likely to be using Apache but
still might want to do what I'm trying.

----------------------------
I have been running tests and I think the problem is more
fundamental to at and crontab here at my installation.

A trivial shell script that copies a file from one place to
another in a test directory works as expected from the
foreground but will not work from crontab or at unless I
make the directory writeable to the world!  And then, the
file thus created shows an owner "32766".

I'm posting to a local unix group here and writing to the 
unix keepers as well.  However, if someone here knows what
they have done to crontab and at, feel free!!

--Thanks,
--Jim Fox