From: Ron Johnson on
On 05/10/2010 02:52 AM, Javier Barroso wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Andrei Popescu
> <andreimpopescu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun,09.May.10, 19:07:46, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2010 05:13 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
>>>> I suppose this is a regression from fixing
>>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577133
>>>>
>>>> rev 487 seems to introduced this change, developper removed the code
>>>> which distinguish between MAILTO defined to NULL, and MAILTO not
>>>> present. I'm not a C expert, so I'm not sure
>>>
>>> Hmmm. All the documents say to add MAILTO="".
>>
>> If this is true, then it was a bug that cron worked without setting
>> $MAILTO. At least some admins will have to adjust their configurations
>> now...
> I think this is a bug, this behaviour shouldn't change. It is not
> sense mailto "" like in Ron attachment.
>

There's a patch in the bug report, for those really affected.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580938

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