Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!pucc-j!purdue!decwrl!glacier!Shasta!croft@su-safe.ARPA From: croft@su-safe.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: unbatcher Message-ID: <381@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Mon, 21-Apr-86 14:27:54 EST Article-I.D.: Shasta.381 Posted: Mon Apr 21 14:27:54 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Apr-86 23:10:27 EST Sender: daemon@Shasta.ARPA Organization: Stanford University Lines: 12 From: Bill Croft Right, that IS what we've been doing, this is the crontab line: 15 * * * * /bin/su news < /usr/lib/news/getnews.sh (I momentarily forgot how cron interprets the first field; you're right, it's XX:15 not XX:15, XX:30, XX:45, XX:00.) So it's still a mystery why the unbatchers themselves would hang. I once mailed you a short news input file that I think caused the very first logjam that we experienced. I'll see if I can find it in my archives.