Bug 127924

Summary: [PATCH] MAILTO option in anacrontab
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul Bolle <pebolle>
Component: anacronAssignee: Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
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Fixed In Version: 2.3-32 Doc Type: Enhancement
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The patch I promised in my bugreport none

Description Paul Bolle 2004-07-15 13:04:50 UTC 
Description of problem: cron has a MAILTO option in crontab (and
logwatch has a MailtTo option in logwatch.conf). anacron doesn't have
a MAILTO option in anacrontab.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.3-31


Additional info: I'll attach a patch which enables a MAILTO option for
anacrontab.

anacron hasn't seen any serious development in years. Therefor I
didn't even consider sending this patch "upstreams". I realise that
the chance for my patch to be accepted are quite small under these
conditions ...
Comment 1 Paul Bolle 2004-07-15 13:06:04 UTC 
Created attachment 101939 [details]
The patch I promised in my bugreport
Comment 2 Rik van Riel 2004-09-27 22:18:24 UTC 
The patch looks good to me.

Jason, any objections if I apply it for rawhide as one of the bug week
activities ? ;)
Comment 3 Rik van Riel 2004-09-27 22:20:49 UTC 
Adding to the bug week tracker.  Since the patch is available this one
should be easy to fix ;)
Comment 4 Paul Bolle 2004-09-28 00:13:50 UTC 
1) Would the debian maintainer qualify as upstreams? Anyway, maybe you
should have a quick look at this debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223337. (I'm not sure
whether the "commited" patch is on that page.)

The debain people seem to have fixed/changed more than I did and
included an update to the manpage (and all that just a few days
earlier too!).

2) It seems wise to add "MAILTO=root" to /etc/anacrontab (to make this
new feature more obvious).
Comment 5 Michael Schwendt 2004-09-28 16:31:15 UTC 
Debian's MAILTO patch has been merged into this one:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-10.diff.gz

They have implemented a bit more, such as adding the hostname in the
subject line, which makes sense since you can MAILTO a different host.
Should be easy to extract the pieces of the patch.

But the patch looks as if it could clash with
anacron-2.3-mail-content-type-77108.patch, so merging/regenerating
that one might be necessary.
Comment 6 Rik van Riel 2004-09-28 16:33:41 UTC 
Patch applied for anacron-2.3-38 (the one from comment #1) and MAILTO
line added to /etc/anacrontab.
Comment 7 Paul Bolle 2005-07-30 21:48:37 UTC 
According to my "Bugzilla Front Page" this bug is still open: "it is now
resolved and you should verify it." Hmmm.

What do you want me (this bug's reporter) to actually do in order to "verify" it?