This is left over from when localcron was a separate program. Then it didn't even create a new name space. It just ran as the local user in the name space in which it started.
It would probably make sense to change cron to do:
putenv("service", "rx");
execl("/bin/rc", "rc", "-lc", buf, nil);
to be more like rexexec. Perhaps $service should be
"cron", but "rx" seems okay.
Russ
