crontab would have to contact cron to get this information,
	and thus would not be able to work if cron was down.

	(Just a thought)

		David/absolute

	"Its just another ultimate battle of good against evil..."

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > ... Hmm, as I type
> > this, another idea comes to mind - what about a command line argument
> > ("-d" seems reasonable) for setting ${CRONDIR} in /etc/rc.conf?  Is this
> > a win-win all around?
> 
> Now, finally, something in this discussion that makes sense!  Yes,
> by all means, this soundsl ike a _very_ good idea!  Perhaps we could
> also add a "-m <size>" option to implement Curt's recently added size
> limitation?  And some other flag to indicate whether root or the user
> owns his/her crontab file?
> 
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