I'm afraid this is back. It persists in Vixie cron, and Debian 12 reintroduced it via a February 2023 commit which went in 3.0pl1-159: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/commit/693ff29b93d61dff7c1fd62d657ba5aedfa57e6f In other words, even though there's still patch supposed to fix ( https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fixes/Manpage-corrections-and-improvements.patch?ref_type=heads ) and it's still in series, it's cancelled by a later patch on crontab.5: debian/patches/fixes/crontab_5_manpage.patch It's not applied in Debian 12 and unstable: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/cron/crontab.5.en.html
This affects 3.0pl1-178ubuntu1 and above, and therefore 24.04 and 24.10. Note that this is extra confusing now that Ubuntu ships numerous cron implementations, including bcron, which never documented this, and systemd-cron. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man5/crontab.5.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235464 Title: man 5 cron incomplete Status in cron package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in cron package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: cron According to man 5 crontab there is no way to use multiple recipients in MAILTO variable. According to man 5 crontab under FreeBSD ( http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/localcgi/man-cgi.cgi?crontab+5 ): "MAILTO may also be used to direct mail to multiple recipients by seperating recipient users with a comma." And it works under Ubuntu also! Add this line to the man page of 5 crontab please. I've found the bug in http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/cron and it exists under Kubuntu 8.04 also. apt-cache policy cron cron: Installed: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1 0 500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/235464/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
