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

[Bryan Horstmann-Allen]

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| On 2010-10-26 13:58:47, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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| This is a widely used phrase in Germany to mention that something is abused and 
| abusing a method to set up environment variables is what you currently do.
 
And here I thought it was just another example of you being caustic.

| The standard permits implementations to provide a method to overwrite
| HOME, LOGNAME, PATH, and SHELL.
| 
| The standard says that the way mail is send is implementation specific method, 
| so it would be permitted to implement an enhancement for tayloring the mail 
| Subject.
| 
| I am not convinced that your method is the right way and I am not convinced 
| that a user should be able to hide that the mail was send by cron.
 
If he calls it "scron" will you be happy?
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