[SunHELP] Crontab problem

[Kevin Stevens]

Ok, found the problem, thanks again.  I had deleted the directory that the
news user had registered as its home.  Simple problem, I just brain-locked on
the cron file.

KeS

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk>
To: <Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 00:17
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Crontab problem


> Are there any pointers in /var/cron/log ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:32 AM
> Subject: [SunHELP] Crontab problem
>
>
> > I have a crontab for a user named "news", which not surprisingly goes out
> > and fetches news, or is supposed to.  It's been working fine for eons.
> > Did a reconfigure reboot last night to add a disk drive, and now the news
> > crontab isn't running.  Crond is running, running the executable
> > interactively as the news user works fine.  I did a crontab -e news and
> > re-saved the file, just for grins - no help.  Thoughts??
> >
> > KeS
> >
>
>