Ubuntu
cron package

man 5 cron incomplete

Bug #235464 reported by Tamas Fejos
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
cron (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
cron (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: cron

According to man 5 crontab there is no way to use multiple recipients in MAILTO variable.

According to man 5 crontab under FreeBSD ( http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/localcgi/man-cgi.cgi?crontab+5 ):
"MAILTO may also be used to direct mail to multiple recipients by seperating recipient users with a comma."

And it works under Ubuntu also!

Add this line to the man page of 5 crontab please.

I've found the bug in http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/cron and it exists under Kubuntu 8.04 also.
 apt-cache policy cron

cron:
  Installed: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1 0
        500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Tags: bitesize
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report. confirming.

Changed in cron:
status: New → Confirmed
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

and the patch.

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Tamas Fejos (tfejos) wrote : Re: [Bug 235464] Re: man 5 cron incomplete

Thanks for the fix. :)

--
Best regards,
    Fejős Tamás http://fejos.hu
    http://hoszting.com

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement
<email address hidden> wrote:
> and the patch.
>
> ** Attachment added: "cron_3.0pl1-104+ubuntu5.debdiff"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16432068/cron_3.0pl1-104%2Bubuntu5.debdiff
>
> ** Tags added: bitesize
>
> --
> man 5 cron incomplete
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235464
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Thanks, looks good; uploaded.

Changed in cron:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-104+ubuntu5

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cron (3.0pl1-104+ubuntu5) intrepid; urgency=low

  * crontab.5 : Add details about multiple recipients in MAILTO (LP: #235464)

 -- Jean-Baptiste Lallement <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:41:42 +0200

Changed in cron:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

It would be great if you could also send the fix upstream.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in cron:
status: Unknown → New
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Tamas Fejos (tfejos) wrote :

How can I do that?
TIA!
--
Regards,
Tamas

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Bryce
Harrington<email address hidden> wrote:
> It would be great if you could also send the fix upstream.
>
> --
> man 5 cron incomplete
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235464
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in cron (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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