Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!fub!bolzen.in-berlin.de!sirene.in-berlin.de!usenet From: "Nora E. Etukudo" <nora@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: No su -c Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 21:36:29 +0200 Organization: Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk W.O.M.A.N. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3170023D.56543806@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE> References: <4kogpf$290@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: amazone.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.3.57 i486) Robin Birch wrote: > > Dear All, > FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't appear to allow su login -c <something>. I know there > is a way of haveing the same effect by using echo but I can't remember > how to do it. I want to run my news stuff from rc.local and start slurp etc > off as news from within a script and am a little stymied. > > Ideas please. I've the following in my 'crontab' and it works: 25 * * * * echo "send-nntp news.glasnost.de" | su news 17 03 * * * echo "expire -s -v1" | su news Liebe Gruesse, Nora. -- | nora@sirene.IN-Berlin.DE | SIRENE, Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk WOMAN | | nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE | W.omen O.nly M.ail A.nd N.ews | | http://sirene.IN-Berlin.DE | +4930 8932911, 14400-V42bis (24h) |