Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews Won't from Cronjob

[Marie Fischer <fmarie@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Cornelius Krasel wrote:

> Uncle Meat wrote:
> 
> > I'm having a problem with fetchnews running from cron. I can perform the
> > same command manually, but it never runs from the crontab.
> > 
> > Here are the entries:
> > 
> > 05      19      *       *       *       news    /usr/local/sbin/texpire
> > 30      19      *       *       *       news    /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews
>   ^min    ^hour   ^day    ^month  ^weekday 
> 
> I am quite surprised about your sixth field. What operating system are
> you using? (Under linux, the sixth field is supposed to contain the
> command.)

It is, in user's crontab. However, /etc/crontab is different, the sixth
field containing the user. I have texpire and fetchnews in the "news"
user's crontab, but I can't think of any way why putting it into
/etc/crontab should cause any problems.

-- 
marie


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