rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) (11/15/83)
UUCP@burl running 2.10.1 news: Every five minutes, cron runs /usr/lib/news/Poll, a shell script. This shell script runs 'sendnews' and 'sendnews -r', among other things. Noone ever gets mail about errors. However, if I run the identical command(s) by hand, or with a 'nohup', I *do* get the mail telling me 'error in sendnews......' Can anyone tell me why this is happening and/or how it can be fixed? cron is run by root, of course, and the command in crontab is: su news -c /usr/lib/news/Poll I have mail for both root and news forwarded, I have verified that their mail IS indeed forwarded properly. Thanks for any help, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd clyde ihnp4 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj