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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C-news vs. ISC 2.2 cron
Keywords: cnews newsrun does not work with cron?
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.072634.2185@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 07:26:34 GMT
References: <9298@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Organization: Pilikia, Honolulu
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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?
>
>'newsrun' works fine if I fire it either when logged in as news or when I
>manually fire it using 'su -c' as root.

I'm running ISC 2.2 and newsrun runs just fine via the news crontab I've
set up.  Below is my news user crontab:

0,30 6-23 * * * /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsrun
0 22,4,10,16 * * * /usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newswatch
59 23 * * * /usr/lib/newsbin/maint/newsdaily
0 2 * * * /usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire

Of course you must set up your cron.allow/deny files correctly in /usr/lib/cron
so news has permission to run cron jobs.  Also, I found Cnews needed the
setnewsids setuid utility in order for things to go execute properly, I believe
this program lives in /usr/lib/news.

-rwsr-xr--   1 root     news       51357 Jun 19 22:47 setnewsids

I can't think of anything else offhand which was particular to ISC in getting
newsrun to fly.  Mail me if I can help further!
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