diff --git a/contrib/backends/nntpchan-daemon/libnntpchan/exec_frontend.cpp b/contrib/backends/nntpchan-daemon/libnntpchan/exec_frontend.cpp
index ec54b78..e763dea 100644
--- a/contrib/backends/nntpchan-daemon/libnntpchan/exec_frontend.cpp
+++ b/contrib/backends/nntpchan-daemon/libnntpchan/exec_frontend.cpp
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ int ExecFrontend::Exec(std::deque<std::string> args)
   }
   else
   {
-    int r = execvpe(m_exec.c_str(), (char *const *)cargs, m_Environ);
+    int r = execve(m_exec.c_str(), (char *const *)cargs, m_Environ);
     if (r == -1)
     {
       std::cout << strerror(errno) << std::endl;