Thanks for all who responded - I think I've got a handle on this now.
Apparently, there is a problem with using the 'echo' command in crontab
files - at least on my system (netbsd/i386-1.5.2).  Other commands run just
fine and I'm beginning to think its a wscons conflict - ie cron doest know
where to "echo" to.  Perhaps explicitly specifiying a console would to the
trick?

Beaker


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