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Re: cron/syslog



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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