cron FIFO in mounted spool filesystem

[Gordon Runkle]

In article <8353 at scorn.sco.COM> rogerk at sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) writes:
   Chip Rosenthal wisely pointed out that since cron starts before the
   file systems are mounted, my above solution won't work. He suggests
   either to hack /etc/rc.d to reverse the order (and neither he nor
   I recommend doing this) or pick some lower directory than /usr/spool
   (/usr/spool/news) and make _that_ the mounted file system.

Why is putting the cron startup after the filesystems mount bad?  I've
had mine this way for over a year, and haven't had any difficulty at
all with it.

Inquiring minds and all that rot...

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