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

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 00:48 +1100, Joshua M. Clulow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Kyle McDonald <kmcdonald at egenera.com> wrote:
> > While I hate to copy things from linux
> 
> Nothing wrong with implementing *good* ideas that come from other
> platforms -- Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac or otherwise.
> 
> > MAILTO=admins at foo.bar.com
> > this works for all  the jobs that follow it
> > and can be listed more than once, it does allow different jobs to be
> > mailed to diferent lists.
> 
> > Before I discovered this, I did what another user mentioned, and just
> > made the script send the mail itself. Which works, but ends upwith a
> > lot of repeated code - especially if you want logic to only send mail
> > when there is output.
> 
> This is the problem I want to solve -- removing the need for wrappers
> when performing basic customisation of cron mail.
> 
> I've just implemented MAILTO in my workspace and it appears to work
> both as I would expect and as you've described.  I'll post another
> webrev when I find out what Garrett wants me to do with gettext() and
> so on.
> 


Crontab should be gettext()'ed if it isn't too much trouble.  Or, file a
bug against and do it later.

	- Garrett