Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-100 Followup-For: Bug #396928 I am wondering about the status of this bug.
The original request, by the original submitter, Darren Dittrich, was that cron acquire default options from /etc/default/cron, in the standard Debian way. My suggestion was that one of these options be the "From:" address cron uses to send messages. Setting this is useful regardless of which MTA one is using (i.e. this is *not* specifically a problem with ssmtp, or any other MTA). You stated that "this will be added in the next release", which I am running (and have been for nearly a year), but there is no /etc/default/cron. Being able to control cron's "From:" address would be *hugely* useful in our environment; doubtless this is true for at least one other person (Michelle Konzack, who also added to this bug). In addition, there are obviously other things that would be good to be able to configure for cron in /etc/default/cron. Again, *independent* of anything *any* MTA does, configuring cron's "From:" line is useful. /etc/default/cron is the obvious mechanism for doing this. Please provide a status update. Thanks very much for your efforts, -- Steve Lane System, Network and Security Administrator Doudna Lab Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group UC Berkeley -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (800, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.25.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.15-2+b1 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.61-12.1 extremely simple MTA to get mail o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
