most machines, but ones that are slept overnight (like laptops) will
no longer suddenly have all overnight jobs start simultaneously upon
awakening, rendering the machine useless. I thought I had done this
long ago, but it turned out I'd only done it for my own machines.
- change to always output a valid To: and Subject: line.
- To: recipient obtained from $MAILTO (defaults to root).
- add date to Subject: line. closes [bin/4526] from Giles Lean
<giles@nemeton.com.au>
* daily: explicitly print 'Nothing to report' if /etc/security didn't
report anything.
* crontab: pass output of scripts through sendmail -t instead of
Should prevent problems during daylight savings changeover (which is usually
between 01:00 -> 03:00, depending upon the region) where the cronjobs
may be executed twice, or never at all...
perry