Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:27:46 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> >>> aptitude update && aptitude upgade works fine (this is lenny, where >>> aptitude is the better). >> >> I'm afraid cron-apt uses

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-08 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 17:25, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > >>> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >>> setting another package repository mirrors, different than the current >>> ones

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:00:21 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: >> How does your cron-apt sources list file look like? Have you try by >> setting another package repository mirrors, different than the current >> ones? What does "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
7.6.2011 16:07, Camaleón kirjoitti: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >> I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have >> cron-apt running. >> >> The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) >> >> System Events >> =-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Jun 7 04:59:30

Re: Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:16:20 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have > cron-apt running. > > The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) > > System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch > http://f

Problems with cron-apt in Lenny

2011-06-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I maintain several machines with Squeeze and Lenny, and they have cron-apt running. The lenny machines report this (via logcheck) System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-= Jun 7 04:59:30 www128 cron-apt: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release Unable to find expected entry no

[Solved] Re: Problems with cron

1997-12-18 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, Cron is now working. The problem was (is) what I consider to be a bug which I'd call "Inconsistent behavior of crontab and cron with regard to the newline character". 1. When using "crontab -e" to edit the user crontab file, crontab refuses to accept a newline character (pressing return

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-18 Thread Dominic Davidson
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 02:38:00PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry > is actually > > 0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc ---^^^ This wou

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-18 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Pedro Sanchez" wrote: >I was not aware of the syntax "crontab ". What is "filename"? >/var/spool/cron/crontab/sanchez (or something like that)? I'm not >in my computer right now, I'll try tonight to see what happens. crontab copies the contents of over the current user's crontab file, des

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
There's no difference. I was not aware of the syntax "crontab ". What is "filename"? /var/spool/cron/crontab/sanchez (or something like that)? I'm not in my computer right now, I'll try tonight to see what happens. Thank you, P. Sanchez -- In message &

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry is actually 0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc Anyway, it still doesn't work. P. Sanchez -- In message "Problems with Cron", [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On

Re: Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
"Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file >and included the line > >0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc > >However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is

Problems with Cron

1997-12-17 Thread Pedro Sanchez
Hello, I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron: 1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file and

Re: Two unrelated problems with cron

1997-01-23 Thread Pete Templin
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote: > The other problem I have is in updating cron. I downloaded > cron_3.0pl1-38.deb from ftp.debian.org and used 'dpkg --install'. Well dpkg > crashes with the following message. > > bash# dpkg --pending --configure > Setting up cron (3.0pl1-38) ... > /usr

Two unrelated problems with cron

1997-01-22 Thread Kevin McEnhill
Howdy, A few weeks ago I moved /home to an NFS mounted drive to free up space on my local drive. Now, I get this message mailed to me every morning. Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: find: /home/kevinm: Permissio

problems with cron and caldera wordperfect

1997-01-22 Thread Miro Torrielli
Greets, There seems to be a problem with cron.. it doesn't work.. all the crontabs I have installed don't run, and the system ones don't either. Also, I cannot get caldera wordperfect to run, it almost seg faults.. as does star office for that matter.. any clues? Thanx, Miro -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F