cron jobs fail silently if too much output is produced
Bug #293717 reported by
nemoinis
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #151231: cron jobs fail silently if too much output produced and no MTA is installed.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Mythbuntu |
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Bug Description
cron jobs on a virgin mythbuntu installation will fail silenty if they produce too much output. Because there is no mail MTA installed, cron creates an incorrect pipe (to the non-existent mail) which breaks after a certain number of characters have been output to it.
This bug, and a workaround for it, has been reported here:
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Since a mythbuntu install does not contain mail, it should also set the MAILTO variable to "" to avoid running into this bug.
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| Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote | #1 |
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Since you pointed out the duplicate here, i'm gonna mark it appropriately. We'll get the fix for free once Ubuntu fixes it.