On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:55:50PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > That's a bug that got a lot of press last year, people stuffing
> > > .tgz into their crontabs to avoid quota. Cron should restrict
> > > the file to a reasonable size.
> > 
> > Cool :-)  I missed that one.  Students?
> 
> eek. :-)
> 
> cron files should be owned by the owner and quota-ble.

That puts them in the same logistical category as mailboxes.
User owned files, in a directory that is shared. The only
place that wouldn't qualify as shared would be in your home-dir.

What directory permissions did you have in mind?
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