On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 08:55, Andreas Hasenack <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:41 PM Leroy Tennison <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply, I wasn't aware that bug requests had already been >> submitted. The Ubuntu bug already has a fair amount of heat but the >> priority is low, any way of getting that increased? It seems that the >> software source has been around for a while, is a newer variant of what >> Ubuntu already uses and has been used by other distributions for some >> time. I would think that would mean it's pretty safe to implement. >> >> >> To answer your question - OpenSUSE 13.2 (which is really old at this >> point). "man 5 crontab" refers to MAILFROM and indicates the Author is "Paul >> Vixie ⟨[email protected]⟩" with the last line of the file reading "cronie >> 2012-11-22 CRONTAB(5)". Looks like it was introduced at that version >> because 13.1 has the 2010 version. >> > > vixie-cron is what everybody is/was using for quite some time, and all > distros patched it heavily. Upstream is gone, so it's effectively > abandoned. Suse was using it as well, but migrated to cronie. Found this > page about that migration: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Cron_replace > > cronie exists in debian experimental, but apparently abandoned ( > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cronie). It doesn't exist in Ubuntu. > Upstream is Fedora, at https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie > FWIW there are plans to move to cronie in Debian in bullseye: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/07/msg00100.html Cheers, mwh > I also found some documentation showing how to use systemd timers as a > replacement. It's not a direct replacement, though: > - doesn't parse crontabs, has its own mechanism > - doesn't send out email by default, one needs to use Onfailure and point > it at a script that will send out the email > > We could check the patch that implemented MAILFROM and adopt it. I'm not > sure if suse used the same one attached to the bug I mentioned before. > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
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