Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C-news vs. ISC 2.2 cron
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.214237.19373@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9298@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 21:42:37 GMT

In article <9298@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>I can't seem to get the C-news newsrun script to run from cron in ISC UNIX
>2.2. Has anyone else experienced this problem?

It's not unheard-of to have trouble getting shell scripts to run from cron
if cron isn't initializing the environment properly.  You might see if you
can get something trivial like

	#! /bin/sh
	echo hi there | mail todd

to work first; that will at least tell you whether it's cron or some
C-News-specific problem.
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