Even if you considere this a bug in cron, it was Ubuntu's decision to ship the Desktop version without a MTA installed by default (a decision that I am not questioning, since I agree with it).
Debian ships a MTA installed by default (exim, AFAIK) so this issue does not manifest itself there . You also have to take into account that this is a program that has been in maintenance mode for many years. What we can't have is incoherent beahavior, whereby a cron job might fail in an Ubuntu Desktop depending on how big the output it produces is. Cron is one of those programs a user expects to behave consistently among different distros and versions. If the issue can't be solved upstream in a reasonable time frame, it should be addressed in Ubuntu. -- cron jobs fail silently if too much output produced and no MTA is installed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151231 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
