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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix/uucp/cron problem
Message-ID: <635@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 19:11:30 GMT
References: <22626@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <22626@dhw68k.cts.com> allan@dhw68k.cts.com (Alan Perry) writes:
>I have set up a cron entry for uucp to start uucico at particular times.
>When those particular times arrive, cron sends mail to uucp stating:
>     sh:  L-devices: cannot execute
>or something similar.  The cron entry looks like:
>     30 12 * * * * /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -s<site>
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>or something similar.

If the something similar also has 6 fields before the command-to-execute,
then it, too, is wrong.  The crontab entry should contain _5_ fields
(minute, hour, date, month, weekday) and the command-to-execute.

>Please respond to me directly as I don't usually read this ng.  Thanks.

Oops.

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Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com