Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-197
While editing the root crontab via `crontab -e`, we wrote a somewhat lengthy
command but got
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.3whNKL/crontab":3: command too long
errors in crontab file, can't install.
How long is allowed? The manpages of cron or crontab don't mention it; the
reader have to dig into the source code (currently in
https://sources.debian.org/src/cron/3.0pl1-197/debian/patches/fixes/Dont-silently-truncate-commands.patch
https://sources.debian.org/src/cron/3.0pl1-197/debian/patches/fixes/Dont-silently-truncate-commands.patch,
but this is subject to change) to find this out.
Please document the length properly in the manpages of crontab, whichever it
may be. Additionally, consider replacing the constant upper bound on the
command length with an upper bound based on the memory available to cron.
Gratefully!
Alma
