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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 07:50:01 -0700
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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: bin/683: cron(8)
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The following reply was made to PR bin/683; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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Subject: bin/683: cron(8)
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:42:31 -0400

 <<On Sun, 13 Aug 1995 18:17:21 +0200, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:
 
 > 	- cron start ever a shell. Use exec if there are no meta chars.
 
 This is simply wrong.  Programs such as `cron' have no business
 attempting to parse the command line given to them; that's the job of
 the shell, AND THE SHELL ONLY.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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