Public bug reported: I just did a fresh install of trusty and deliberately made a failing entry in the crontab:
* * * * * mkdir /qwer/qwer In /var/syslog, this results in: May 4 16:04:01 dekker CRON[2395]: (root) CMD (mkdir /qwer/qwer) May 4 16:04:01 dekker CRON[2394]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output) When I look in the documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/14.04 /installation-guide/amd64/ch08s05.html), it says: For this reason the packages exim4 and mutt will be installed by default (provided you did not unselect the “standard” task during the installation). exim4 is a combination MTA/MDA that is relatively small but very flexible. By default it will be configured to only handle e-mail local to the system itself and e-mails addressed to the system administrator (root account) will be delivered to the regular user account created during the installation. Still, mutt and exim4 appear not to be installed, although I did not exclude or remove any packages. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Mon May 5 09:52:04 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-26 (39 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140325.1) SourcePackage: cron UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: cron (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1316036 Title: cron package does not install MTA To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1316036/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
