strange cron behavior

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From: Gary Scott Erickson
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1989 00:36

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Machine: Sun 4/260
OS:      4.0
Problem: cron doesn't give the name of program executed when
	 mailing error messages.

I've got an entry in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root that looks
like:

    30 11 * * * /usr/local/etc/testerror

/usr/local/etc/testerror just echos "this is an error message"

When cron mail's the output to me, I get:

	Your "cron" job

	produced the following output:

	this is an error message

when I should have gotten a message that looks like:

	Your "cron" job
        /usr/local/etc/testerror
	produced the following output:

	this is an error message

(at least this is the way our 386i mails output).

Has anyone else had this problem?  If so, what was the fix?

Gary Erickson
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