From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Nov 18 12:40:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10146 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:40:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from data.nas.nasa.gov (data.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.23.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10140 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from gizmo.nas.nasa.gov (gizmo.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.36.13]) by data.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.6/NAS.5.b) with SMTP id MAA25706; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:33:45 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: data.nas.nasa.gov: Host gizmo.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.36.13] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: David Stickney Cc: "'FBSD ISP'" Reply-To: truesdel@nas.nasa.gov Subject: Re: FW: CRON freeking out on UUCICO, little voices crying "there is an answer, yeah, just jump, jump, open the window and..." In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 1996 03:15:10." <01BBB8B4.BF1885A0@david.wvb.gomel.by> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:33:35 -0800 Message-ID: <9980.848349215@nas.nasa.gov> From: "David A. Truesdell" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just in case no-one else has replied, the problem is NOT uucico, it is that you told cron to run uucico every minute for an hour every hour you specified. If you want uucico run once every two hours, you need to specify which minute of the hour you want it run. You had: * 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20, * * * root /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico -sbrc -r1 -x all -f Instead try: 0 6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20 * * * root /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico -sbrc -r1 -x all -f -- T.T.F.N., Dave Truesdell truesdel@nas.nasa.gov/postmaster@nas.nasa.gov Wombat Wrestler/Software Packrat/Baby Wrangler/Newsmaster/Postmaster