Updated cron?

[Andreas Hasenack]

Hi Leroy,

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:06 AM Leroy Tennison <leroy at datavoiceint.com>
wrote:

> Is a newer version of cron (or an alternative) available for Ubuntu?  The
> reason I ask is that another distribution has a 2012 version that has a
> MAILFROM capability.  Both Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 use 4th Berkeley
> Distribution dated 2010 where mail comes from a pre-defined entity.  This
> is becoming important as efforts to make email less malware-prone are
> causing email systems to become more picky about what they allow.
>

Which other cron are you refering to? Maybe a patched version of what we
and Debian are carrying?

I found this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1750051
Same in debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898177
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