Needless verbosity is the problem here, IMO. I'd expect to receive output from the installer only when the download or install fails for some reason, not when it succeeds.
(Also, to me the culprit here seems to be flashplugin-installer and not update-notifier, as plenty of other packages also report their installation progress, but only flashplugin's seems to get forwarded to root's mail even when nothing abnormal occurs.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1402183 Title: Unimportant update notifications are sent to root from cron script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1402183/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
