Xenix/uucp/cron problem

Dave Hammond daveh at marob.MASA.COM
Sat May 6 05:11:30 AEST 1989


In article <22626 at dhw68k.cts.com> allan at 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 at marob.masa.com



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