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From: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with new execle() in NetBSD 0.9
Date: 9 Sep 1993 22:47:07 +0100
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
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In <26l67i$6qs@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:

>/usr/bin/finger	nasanews@space.mit.edu > /etc/nasanews: No such file or directory
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I've been getting this message from crond too but _only_ for root's crontab.
In my own (non-root) crontab arguments to commands work fine.
I agree that the shell used seems to be irrelevant.

Presumably it is either crond or the exec code?

Bob

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