cron/syslog

1998-12-16 Thread Gossamer
My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : In case you haven't heard, the Internet is

Re: cron/syslog

1998-12-16 Thread john
Gossamer writes: My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as /USR/SBIN/CRON uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'? Cron spawns children to do the actual work. The children upcase themselves so that they can be distinguished from the parent. -- John HaslerThis