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From: macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO UNIX 3.2.2 Can't set login uid from cron
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.233704.887@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:37:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: cmllab.1991Apr03.233704.887
References: <1991Apr02.123535.11230@pfm.rmt.sub.org>
Organization: The Connor MacLeod Laboratories, Regensburg, West-Germany
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In article <1991Apr02.123535.11230@pfm.rmt.sub.org>
bernd@pfm.rmt.sub.org (Bernd Hennig) wrote:

| I have a great problem with the SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and cron. The following
| is a job in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/news:
| 15,30,40,00 * * * * /bin/su news -c "/usr/lib/news/bin/input/newsrun"
| Cron: can't set login UID

Hmmm... Maybe it's the problem that "news" want's to su to news.
Have you tried the command without the "/bin/su -c"?
Are you sure you're running 3.2v2?
(Have a look at /etc/perms/rts. There should be a line like "#rel=3.2.2n")

If this all is of no help try moving the jobs to /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root
                                                                          ^^^^
Rgds

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