Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!lsuc!maccs!cs4ed3ap
From: cs4ed3ap@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tyldesley     A)
Subject: UUCP
Message-ID: <27CD8F65.29032@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 23:16:52 GMT

Okay, I have worked my way through getting UUCP up and running and everything
is working fine. I have it configured to originate only (no call in). It polls
the server when I boot the machine and whenever a user sends mail.

The problem is with what should be the simplest part of the set up: having
cron poll the remote server ever hour on the half our. This is what I have
entered in my crontab file.

	30 * * * *  uucp uupoll maccs

I also have tried 

	43 * * * * uucp /usr/bin/uupoll maccs
	
	43 0-23 * * * root /usr/bin/uupoll maccs
	
None of the above seem to executed by cron. Everything else in my setup works fine. Uupoll maccs can be used from the command line no problem. Does anyone
see a problem with the above? 

Also, anyone know where to ftp nntp from (need it for News I ftped)? Preferably
compiled or edited for a next. Thanks for any help

Andrew
Nextmail: andrew%otter@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
email: cs4ed3@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca