Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!jrg From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) Newsgroups: apple.aux,comp.unix.aux Subject: can't get /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr to run correctly from cron (long) Keywords: uudemon.hr cron Message-ID: <41741@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 8 Jun 90 08:57:33 GMT Organization: Galloway Research Lines: 78 In the continuing war of me against netland, (I love A/UX 2.0, but would love to do something cruel & disgusting to uucp/sendmail/etc) I am currently in a battle with cron (maybe). I can receive and send mail just fine (the from address is still my uucp address instead of my internet address, but I've given up on that battle for the moment). It gets sent out to my sponsoring site (fernwood) via uuxp and all is well, as long as I (as root) execute uucico (or /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr) by hand from a command shell. If I set cron up to do so automatically, files are pulled in, but something goes wrong when the X.* files are processed as shown below. I have tried making /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt a shell script which saves the files and then executes the real uuxqt, but that does not work (and perhaps would not help anyway). Adding a -x9 to the uucico line in uudemon.hr shows no problems (which makes sense since the uucp part seems to work, and rmail doesn't have any debug/diag switches, that I know of) I also have alteered uudemon.hr so the shell vars/env is identical to that i get when logged in as root, still no help. Does anyone know what this is? CONTENTS OF /usr/spool/uucp/LOGFILE on errant mail processing: fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:06) (C,4302,0) OK (DIRECT tty90 0) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:38) (C,4302,0) SUCCEEDED (call to fernwood ) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:46) (C,4302,0) OK (startup) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:48) (C,4302,0) REQUESTED (S D.fernw2a88185 D.fernw2a881 85 root) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:52) (C,4302,1) REQUESTED (S D.gallo225f4ab X.gallowaN22 5f root) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:56) (C,4302,2) OK (conversation complete tty90 50) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:57) (Q,4305,0) root XQT (rmail jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us ) fernwood!uucp (6/7-22:07:58) (Q,4305,0) ret (1000) from fernwood!root (MAIL FAIL ) fernwood!daemon (6/7-22:08:01) (X,4313,0) XQT QUE'D (rmail root@fernwood.UUCP ) CONTENTS of the D.* file enqueued as the last item above is: From root Thu Jun 7 22:07:59 1990 remote from galloway Received: by galloway.sj.ca.us (5.61/SMI-3.2) id AA04310; Thu, 7 Jun 90 22:07:59 PDT, Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 22:07:59 PDT From: galloway!root Message-Id: <9006080507.AA04310@galloway.sj.ca.us> To: fernwood!root Mail failed (PATH=/bin:/usr/bin LOGNAME=uucp TZ=`/bin/cat rmail jrg@galloway.sj. ca.us ). Letter returned to sender. The particular mail that cuased this problem was sent form apple.com to jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us and is processed fine if /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr is executed on the command line in a command shell instead of from cron. CONTENTS of crontab file: 7 4,10,16,22 * * 1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr 30 3 * * 1,2,3,4,5,6 /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.day 0 9 * * 0 /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.wk CONTENTS of /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr: #!/bin/sh : : uudemon.hr : # @(#)uudemon.hr UniPlus V.2.1.2 (UniSoft 1.2) # 'perform every 6 hours on the 7-minute mark' # Copyright 1988 Apple Computer, Inc. LOGNAME=uucp export LOGNAME PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/mac/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/lib/uucp:. export PATH cd /usr/spool/uucp /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -sfernwood thanks for any and all help. -jrg -- internet jrg@apple.com John R. Galloway, Jr. (soon to be) jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us applelink d3413 CEO..receptionist 795 Beaver Creek Way human (408) 259-2490 Galloway Research San Jose, CA 95133 These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!