makehistory in crontab (LINUX)

[Bill Davidsen]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Chris Loos wrote:

> I configured INN under LINUX and it is working quit well.
> And I added a cronjob as I found in a FAQ:
> 
> # check the history database from time to time
> # date: every tuesday morning 04:00am
> 0 4 * * 2 news /usr/lib/news/bin/makehistory -buv
> 
> When this job ran this week the first time, I got an email telling me that
> innd is not running. And it was true - the daemon was killed, also when I
> ran the cronjob later manually...

  I would never dream of running makehistory unless the history or
overview was totally broken. This stopped being a good idea about the time
it took more than a few minutes, perhaps a decade ago. Suspect any other
info as obsolete in that FAQ.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.