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From: paul@whuts.UUCP (HO)
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Subject: Re: Cron questions
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 15:11:21 EDT
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> > It is much nicer to do it like so:
> > 30 * * * * /bin/su person -c "whatever"
> 
> For efficiency, make that:
> 
> 30 * * * * exec /bin/su person -c "exec whatever"
> 

Really? Seems to me in the first case there is one exec (from 
cron), and in the second case there are two execs.