[newbie] Weird Cron job problem

2002-12-14 Thread Anthony Abby 
I've got a problem with a cron job that just seems so weird to me.  It
has to do with fnews, which I loaded up yesterday...

if I run '/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups' from the
terminal everything runs just fine fnews pulls my injects and passes
them to my mailing list.  But if I try to run this all from cron I get
the following error:

-Forwarded Message-

 From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Cron root@mail sh /root/news/cronrun
 Date: 14 Dec 2002 14:30:01 -0500
 
 Connecting to news.cavtel.net at port 119: .. done.
 fnews: //news/rec.arts.comics.dc.universe: cache create error: No such file 
 or directory Disconnecting from news.cavtel.net: done.


/etc/crontab

01 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups

I also tried this

01 * * * * root sh /root/news/cronrun

/root/news/cronrun
/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups

Any idea why this works from the terminal, but not in cron??

Anthony



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Re: [newbie] Weird Cron job problem

2002-12-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn 
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 07:38, Anthony Abby wrote:
 I've got a problem with a cron job that just seems so weird to me.  It
 has to do with fnews, which I loaded up yesterday...
 
 if I run '/usr/local/bin/fnews -f /root/news/fnewsgroups' from the
 terminal everything runs just fine fnews pulls my injects and passes
 them to my mailing list.  But if I try to run this all from cron I get
 the following error:
 

Have you checked WHO the job is running as? You might want to set the
owner as root.

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