cron (3.0pl1-134) unstable; urgency=medium * crontabs are now limited to 10,000 lines, up from the previous 1,000. -- Christian Kastner Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:49:01 +0200 cron (3.0pl1-133) unstable; urgency=medium * As a reasonable protective measure, crontabs are now limited to 1000 lines in length per crontab. The maintainers find it very unlikely that longer crontabs exist; however, if you do have a use case, please file a bug report with a brief rationale, and we will consider raising this limit. -- Christian Kastner Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:44:13 +0100 cron (3.0pl1-119) unstable; urgency=low The semantics of the -L option of the cron daemon have changed: from now on, the value will be interpreted as a bitmask of various log selectors, with "1" (log only the start of jobs) being the new default. Additionally, since -117 (NEWS entry was overlooked), the LSBNAMES variable in /etc/default/cron was merged with the EXTRA_OPTS variable as it was redundant. -- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:44:49 +0200 cron (3.0pl1-110) unstable; urgency=low In the past, long-running jobs caused certain MTAs to time out, resulting in no output being sent. Justin Pryzby's patch to fix this has been included. crontab(1) now refuses any crontabs missing a newline before EOF. cron(8) now recovers from broken symlinks in /etc/cron.d. This fix may cause power management issues (disk spin-ups), feedback welcome. -- Christian Kastner Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:25:09 +0200 cron (3.0pl1-74) unstable; urgency=low The checksecurity script is no longer included with the cron package: it now has its own package, "checksecurity". If you liked the functionality provided with that script, please install the new package. -- Steve Greenland Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:15:03 -0500