Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-106
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

When cron sends email, it includes the hostname in the subject.  Except,
it abbreviates it to the part before the first ".".  That seems kind of
pointless for me except as a matter of overzealous brevity.  Moreover, I
have systems in different domains with the same first part of the
hostname.  So I would like cron to report the whole thing.

This isn't a big deal as I can easily distinguish the mails by their
email addresses, but it's nice for the subject to be clear.  Anyway, up
to you.

I'm appending a patch.  Nobody else was using the function first_word,
so I removed it.

Andrew

--- cron.h.orig 2010-02-18 18:01:19.000000000 +0000
+++ cron.h      2010-02-18 18:01:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@
 char           *env_get __P((char *, char **)),
                *arpadate __P((time_t *)),
                *mkprints __P((unsigned char *, unsigned int)),
-               *first_word __P((char *, char *)),
                **env_init __P((void)),
                **env_copy __P((char **)),
                **env_set __P((char **, char *));
--- do_command.c.orig   2010-02-18 18:00:49.000000000 +0000
+++ do_command.c        2010-02-18 18:01:42.000000000 +0000
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@
                                fprintf(mail, "From: root (Cron Daemon)\n");
                                fprintf(mail, "To: %s\n", mailto);
                                fprintf(mail, "Subject: Cron <%...@%s> %s\n",
-                                       usernm, first_word(hostname, "."),
+                                       usernm, hostname,
                                        e->cmd);
 # if defined(MAIL_DATE)
                                fprintf(mail, "Date: %s\n",
--- misc.c.orig 2010-02-18 18:01:31.000000000 +0000
+++ misc.c      2010-02-18 18:01:04.000000000 +0000
@@ -580,40 +580,6 @@
 }
 
 
-/* two warnings:
- *     (1) this routine is fairly slow
- *     (2) it returns a pointer to static storage
- */
-char *
-first_word(s, t)
-       register char *s;       /* string we want the first word of */
-       register char *t;       /* terminators, implicitly including \0 */
-{
-       static char retbuf[2][MAX_TEMPSTR + 1]; /* sure wish C had GC */
-       static int retsel = 0;
-       register char *rb, *rp;
-
-       /* select a return buffer */
-       retsel = 1-retsel;
-       rb = &retbuf[retsel][0];
-       rp = rb;
-
-       /* skip any leading terminators */
-       while (*s && (NULL != strchr(t, *s))) {
-               s++;
-       }
-
-       /* copy until next terminator or full buffer */
-       while (*s && (NULL == strchr(t, *s)) && (rp < &rb[MAX_TEMPSTR])) {
-               *rp++ = *s++;
-       }
-
-       /* finish the return-string and return it */
-       *rp = '\0';
-       return rb;
-}
-
-
 /* warning:
  *     heavily ascii-dependent.
  */

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libpam0g                      1.1.1-1    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.89-4   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii  exim4                         4.71-3     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.71-3     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  lockfile-progs                <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  checksecurity                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  logrotate                     3.7.8-4    Log rotation utility

-- no debconf information



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