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. :)

cs


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