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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: crontab & stderr discovery
Message-ID: <285@graffiti.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:22:56 EDT
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> > 1 0 * * * /bin/sh /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1
> > 1 0 * * * /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1
>   1 0 * * * exec /usr/adm/script.sh 1>/usr/adm/script.log 2>&1
> 
> I'll be amused if there are systems on which this fails!

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?