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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: httpd through cron Date: 18 Jul 1996 10:29:00 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4sl04s$bs@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4s88g3$krt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sfte0$meq@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: : > It needs a /dev/tty, which it can't get if it is run by cron. : Why does an HTTPD need /dev/tty? Why is there a line saying MESSAGES=OFF in the crontab script. I put 'mesg y' into /etc/profile once and took weeks to figure out why loads of cron jobs (ones that source /etc/profile) broke. Maybe there are further scripts involved ? But I agree, httpd *shouldn't* need /dev/tty. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....