Post by @imminent_nebula@lemmy.ca

2026-10-12 16:25 UTC

I see. I’m the only user and the .castgetrc file that I edit for the RSS feeds is located in home. The castget command works in terminal when I type it, but it may not if cron does it? Would that be because cron installs as root? I’m on Cachyos and had to install cronie as cron wasn’t preinstalled. If it doesn’t work I’ll try your suggestion. I know -u is for user, what is -n – in this case?

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@Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-12 17:47

If you ever have a question about what a specific flag does for a command, type man [insert command here] and RTFM (respectfully, of course). If you need a shorthand that’s less verbose, most commands have a –help or -h flag that prints out a quick overview of how to use the command and what the flags do.

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@vole@lemmy.world 2026-10-12 18:12

It would be because from runs as the root user. Castget probably looks at the file path $HOME/.castgetrc. For your regular user, $HOME is probably /home/myamazingusername. For the root user, $HOME is probably /root . You can get a root terminal session by running sudo -i in a terminal console window. You can try running castget there to see what happens. Sudo -n: -n, --non-interactive Avoid prompting the user for input of any kind. If a password is required for the command to run, sudo, will display an error message and exit. It’s just a nice thing to put in non-interactive scripts that use sudo. Sometimes you can end up with scripts that just wait endlessly for a password that will never be input because the script is being run non-interactively. The flag probably isn’t needed for a cron job, because root probably can sudo as any user without a password, but it doesn’t hurt either.

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