Hi folks,
My original question was a problem with expire. It ran from the command line,
but not in cron. I also had a problem with my news not propagating to the
world, but I was dealing with that separately. However, the problems were
related (no surprise).
I got a ton of email back, all basically saying the same thing, check
permissions. Well, I found not only were permissions messed up, but news
applications were running out of roots cron. So I went thru my system and fixed
all the permissions and the crons, recycled everthing, and ended up worse off
than when I started :-( Now I could not even run the expire from the command
line. So I reinstalled INN. Saved my configurations, did a make install, and
restored one or two configuration files that were overwritten. That seemed to
fix a lot of problems. Posts are now propagating to the world. And I can run
expire from the command line.
But... when the expire runs from cron. I get the following error:
Your "cron" job
/usr/local/news/bin/news.daily delayrm expireover
produced the following output:
Can't open spool directory: Permission denied
Now, I am assuming it is referring to /var/spool/news. On my system, that is
linked to /news. Permissions are 777 news news (/usr/spool/news is also linked
to /news).
So, any idea why I cannot run expire from cron? When I run it from the command
line, I su to news and run it as news and it works fine. I have been told that
expire is just flaky on a Sun, but I am having to run expire manually every
other day and it is getting to be a pain :-( So I would appreciate any insite
anyone may have.
Thanks to the following for responding to my previous post:
maclean@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca
tox@remarque.berkeley.edu
terzic@mda.ca
jon@churchill.co.uk
adam@ltx.com
olit@centrum.is
blymn@awadi.com.AU
simes@tcp.co.uk
djve@deakin.edu.au
D.J.Peacock@reading.ac.uk
Special thanks to rali@hri.com who took the time to work with me directly.
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Sheryl D. Chapin
Network Support Engineer
Metro II, Mendota Heights, MN
sherylc@metro2.k12.mn.us
Phone: 612-686-2272
Fax: 612-686-5501
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