rc.d/cron appears to ignore rcvar "cron_program" -- intentional?

[David Wolfskill]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 06:11:17PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> ...
> Ah, I thought it was an /etc/crontab type of situation.

:-}  I rather like /etc/crontab.  But this is for (quasi-)random
developers -- and some of their build tools are sensitive to the output
of "uname -r".

> So it sounds like what you were already thinking of doing was writing a
> little script that exports that envar and then execs /usr/sbin/cron.
> That should do it for you. Then you just change cron_program to point to
> your script in /etc/rc.con[.local]. Sorry if I'm being painfully
> obvious, just want to make sure we close the loop.

I was thinkinig of doing something like that, yes -- so as a reality
check, I hacked /etc/rc.d/cron to export UNAME_r before issuing
run_rc_command; that was not effective.  So I've started looking at the
code in src/usr.sbin/cron to see if it may be clearing the environment.

At which point, this is rather far off-topic for -rc@, so it probably
ought not be discussed further here.

Peace,
david
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