On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:08:57AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 03:07:24PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
It's probably done to prevent some kind of exploit. Having symlinks to
other places makes controlling the cron scripts a lot harder. It probably
also wants the scripts to have proper permissions, and be owned by root,
and stuff like that. In other words, it's probably checking against all of
the convenience things that you're looking to do.
Hmm that makes sense. Security rears its ugly head again. :)
Do you know which cron implementation your distribution uses? I have three
available to choose from in Gentoo. If you know which one it is, I could
glance at the source and see what it's checking for. Even better, you
could look at the source and figure out what it is doing.
Maybe this is a habit from working on OS/free software from pre-Google
days, where many things could only be figured out by looking at the source.
I still tend to go for the source first, and only later think about
checking google to see if someone else might have mentioned the same thing.
David
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