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

[David Wolfskill]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:06:28PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> David,
> 
> You haven't defined an actual problem yet. :)

The "actual problem" I have is that I want cron(8) in a jail to execute
any tasks with an artificially-set UNAME_r environment variable by
default.  (We set this environment variable in login.conf, but that only
affects processes where login(1) is involved; cron-spawned tasks don't
qualify.)

> Did you try setting cron_program in /etc/rc.conf and it didn't work?
> 
> /etc/rc.subr should handle this for you. If it doesn't we need to look
> at it again.

That's fine; I hadn't tried it: I merely looked at the script,
thought it odd, and asked a question: Is that intentional?

I gather from your response that the answer is "yes." :-}

(I did try augmenting the rc.d/cron script with

export UNAME_r=7.1-RELEASE

immediately prior to the run_rc_command invocation; that did not appear
to do what I rather had hoped it would.)

Peace,
david
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