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From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.)
Newsgroups: apple.aux,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: can't get /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hr to run correctly from cron (long)
Summary: Thanks, this was it!
Keywords: uudemon.hr cron
Message-ID: <41792@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 9 Jun 90 14:12:46 GMT
References: <41741@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Jun8.174503.3125@servalan.uucp>
Organization: Galloway Research
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In article <1990Jun8.174503.3125@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes:
> Note: I don't have A/UX 2.0, so all my replies below are based on 1.1.  I'm
> assuming that the A/UX 2.0 uucp is bug-for-bug compatible with the 1.1 one :-)
> 
> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) writes:
> > [a sad saga of how i could not get cron to execute uucp stuff]
> 
> /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt is known (at least under 1.1) to freak severely (start
> eating queued jobs without trace) if the TZ environment variable is not set.
> Why does it do this? Beats me; after all, the /etc/zoneinfo/localtime link is
> there *specifically* to tell what the default timezone is so programs won't
> need the TZ env variable except in special cases.  
>   Anyway, cron does *not* set the TZ env. variable, but the default .profile
> files supplied in A/UX do, so uuxqt always works when run from your login
> shell, but not from the cron job.  Here's the script I use for polling uokmax;
> you'll probably want to change the first (blank) line to read "#!/bin/sh", 
> since the #! construct is available in 2.0...
> --
> Richard Todd	rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us
> 	rmtodd@servalan.uucp

YES!!! this was it, setting up TZ in the various scripts made it all work. 
Thanks Richard.
	-jrg

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