Am also experiencing this from about 30 Ubuntu 16.04 machines in our office. We get very regular e-mails that the flash plugin was updated, and there's no "normal" way to silence them. As a workaround, we change /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common to send its output to `/dev/null`, but this will be rolled back with an change of update- notifier.
I think that the last patch, posted by Roman Odaisky, will fix part of the issue. However, for the Flash player, at some point, `apt` is called which also produces output that is e-mailed in cron. It might be best to just change the cronjob to redirect its output (perhaps also stderr) to some log file. ** Summary changed: - "ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing..." email message repeatedly from /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common + Cronjob /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common sends too many e-mail messages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1641671 Title: Cronjob /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common sends too many e-mail messages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1641671/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
