Bug#620392: cron looses job output if no mta is installed

2012-07-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
merge 670118 620392 thanks On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:26:01PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: I suggest that in this case the output should be sent to syslog, at the least. I'm merging this bug with bug #670118 which provides precisely support for logging cron job information to syslog. This

Bug#620392: cron looses job output if no mta is installed

2011-04-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Logging to syslog could be an idea worth entertaining, but it would have to be implemented via a configurable option. Logging of output of cron jobs to syslog is not something I would think of being a good idea. There's a lot of

Bug#620392: cron looses job output if no mta is installed

2011-04-03 Thread Christian Kastner
On 04/03/2011 04:09 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: Logging to syslog could be an idea worth entertaining, but it would have to be implemented via a configurable option. Logging of output of cron jobs to syslog is

Bug#620392: cron looses job output if no mta is installed

2011-04-01 Thread Adam Heath
package: cron version: 3.0pl1-106 cron has no depends on any mta; instead, it just has a recommends. However, when no mta is installed, the output of the job being run gets thrown away. This is very bad, and makes debugging things difficult. I suggest that in this case the output should be

Bug#620392: cron looses job output if no mta is installed

2011-04-01 Thread Christian Kastner
severity 620392 wishlist thanks Hi Adam, On 04/01/2011 07:26 PM, Adam Heath wrote: package: cron version: 3.0pl1-106 cron has no depends on any mta; instead, it just has a recommends. However, when no mta is installed, the output of the job being run gets thrown away. This is very bad,