[illumos-Developer] webrev: 374 cron should send more useful mail

[Peter Tribble]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Joshua M. Clulow <josh at sysmgr.org> wrote:
>> We can now accept crontab entries like this:
>>
>>   MAIL_SUBJECT=Not the BEES
>>   * * * * * date
>>
>> Also, an empty MAIL_SUBJECT= will cause crontab to error out when saving.
>
> I did a little more testing and realised that MAIL_SUBJECT= was
> applying to every crontab entry after its definition.  I've made a
> minor change so that only applies to the *next* crontab entry and is
> then reset to the default behaviour.

That seems reasonable. It's slightly different to the other variables,
but the revised behaviour seems to be the one I would expect.

Thanks for taking this on!

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