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

["Stefan Bauer" <sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm running the fetchnews from the root crontab without any problems.
Did you try to change the user for the fetchnews entry to root - are
there the same problems?

Uncle Meat schrieb:
> 
> On 28-Jan-00 Cornelius Krasel opined:
> > 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.)
> 
> RH 6.0. Here's the entire crontab in which all works except the last line.
> All have a similar entry in the same field.
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
> MAILTO=kcsmart
> HOME=/
> # run-parts
> 01      *       *       *       *       root    run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02      0       *       *       *       root    run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 02      2       *       *       7       root    run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 02      3       1       *       *       root    run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> 00      7       *       *       *       root    /usr/sbin/ntpdate
> ntp1.digex.net > /dev/null 2>&1
> 00      19      *       *       *       root    /usr/sbin/ntpdate
> ntp1.digex.net > /dev/null 2>&1
> 05      19      *       *       *       news    /usr/local/sbin/texpire
> 30      19      *       *       *       news    /usr/local/sbin/fetchnews
> 
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