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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: httpd through cron Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:08:05 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 40 Message-ID: <31ED9C85.3F19@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4s88g3$krt@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4sfas7$beb@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) James L Fox wrote: > > In article <4sdo3p$461@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, > James L Fox <jlfox+@pitt.edu> wrote: > > > >--------- > >Note: > >I know this group is FreeBSD and not SunOs or CERN but I also > >know that many posters/readers here are running web servers, > >understand cron, and might want to try to do what I'm doing > >with Apache on FreeBSD. > >--------- > > > Some were confused by my mention of Apache in this context. > Although I am having problems launching CERN httpd, I thought > those in this group were more likely to be using Apache but > still might want to do what I'm trying. > > ---------------------------- > I have been running tests and I think the problem is more > fundamental to at and crontab here at my installation. > > A trivial shell script that copies a file from one place to > another in a test directory works as expected from the > foreground but will not work from crontab or at unless I > make the directory writeable to the world! And then, the > file thus created shows an owner "32766". > I suspect a more fundamental problem here. Make sure that the directory, the files to be copied & copied to, and the entry in crontab all have the same owner. I've encoutered some really odd problems that were caused by owner conflicts, especially when one was root. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |