Hi Bob, Bob Feldbauer wrote: > If a cron job produces too much output, it will silently fail if no MTA > is installed. This issue was reported and confirmed as a bug in Ubuntu > (bug #151231 - > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/151231) but does not > seem to have been reported in Debian because it does not typically > manifest itself since an MTA (exim) is almost always installed by > default. It can occur on Debian when using it as a VServer guest, since > newvserver only installs the bare minimum of packages by default.
many thanks for your report and your analysis. I have committed a fix which simply bypasses all the mail processing code if the hard-coded MTA (/usr/lib/sendmail, or whatever it points to) is not found. I'd forward a simple patch to the LP bug, but unfortunately this fix relies on another (big) fix for an MTA issue. If this is urgent, both fixes can be obtained here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cron/trunk/?rev=487&sc=0 http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cron/trunk/?rev=488&sc=0 Christian
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