Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > Finally, a way (and this could be either via /etc/default/cron or > via another variable in the crontab) to optionally specify an alternative, > more > descriptive subject line for such email might be nice, esp. if it could be > subjected to some printf-like substitutions, one of which should be the > nodename (cron email from multiple systems can sometimes only be > distinguished by inspecting the Received: headers, which is very ugly).
+1 Pretty much every large site ends up with their own wrapper script to do this, but it would be nice to simplify it to a few default or environment variables. While we're throwing out wishes, the "step values" allowed by some other cron's (eg "*/2") would be handy. I think that one might need an "enable_extensions" knob though as it has the potential to break any script that parses crontabs. Pete.
