Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Problem with C News Expire
Message-ID: <1991May2.172809.7098@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 17:28:09 GMT
References: <1991May2.154404.6131@progress.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May2.154404.6131@progress.com> erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson) writes:
>45 1 * * *  "/usr/lib/newsbin/expire/doexpire -v" > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>The cron log indicates that this gets run, but it immediately exits
>with exit code "1"...

Unless your cron is odd, you are not telling it to run `.../doexpire' with
the -v option; you are telling it to run a program named `.../doexpire -v'.
Unsurprisingly, no such program exists.  Try taking out the quotes.
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