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From: jlfox+@pitt.edu (James L Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: httpd through cron
Date: 20 Jul 1996 05:26:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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In article <4sl00j$bn@anorak.coverform.lan>,
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<James L Fox (jlfox+@pitt.edu) wrote:
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<What does your 'crontab -l' say ?
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<If I set up the following:
<22 * * * * rm -f /tmp/Crontest; touch /tmp/Crontest
<

The problem turned out to be a complication of the AFS kerberos
authenticated distributed filesystem that we use. Cron dutifully
starts up your job but AFS says "no ticket -- no writing!"