Subject: Re: /var/cron -> /etc/cron
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/1999 23:51:20
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> >  + users can now fill / (which was true of /var was on the root f/s
> >    before anyway).
> 
> This bugged me enough that I hacked in a fix for it; in my updated
> version crontab now checks the file to make sure it's no larger
> than 256K, and generates an error if it is.

That should probably be site configurable, btw.

Perry