My cron daemon likes to identify itself in the syslog as
/USR/SBIN/CRON
uppercase no less. Why not plain 'cron'?
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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.
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