crontab & stderr discovery

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sun Oct 20 12:37:54 AEST 1985


> On V7, not only will that fail, but so will the others. Does anyone know why
> you can't run a shell script from crontab on V7? Is it just that cron doesn't
> set up the right environment, or what?

How odd, we are running V7 (Bell Labs V7, not some misnamed mutant which
has been hacked to death at some random California university) and we run
shell files from crontab all the time.  Works fine.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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