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From: THUFIR HAWAT <hawat.thufir@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] cron fetchnews
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:15:13
Message-Id: bf6b6d5c0603281309w5edbb761k3c93d0741a204f4d@mail.gmail.com
1 I've read abit about cron, then I was thinking about doing it myself,
2 when I came across this very neat file :)
3
4 Just to confirm, please, all I do is uncomment line 10 and every hour
5 fetchnews will run as a daemon? Neat-o!
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7
8 thufir@localhost ~ $
9 thufir@localhost ~ $ cat -n /etc/cron.hourly/fetchnews
10 1 #!/bin/sh
11 2 #
12 3 # Uncomment the following if you want to regularly
13 4 # fetch new messages from your news server.
14 5 #
15 6 #
16 7 # This is part of the leafnode package.
17 8 #
18 9
19 10 #/usr/sbin/fetchnews
20 thufir@localhost ~ $ date
21 Tue Mar 28 22:07:10 IST 2006
22 thufir@localhost ~ $
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25 thanks,
26
27 Thufir
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] cron fetchnews Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: cron fetchnews Marco Costa <costa@×××××.com>