crontab cuts off file names at 100 characters

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

In the mean time, this limit has been raised to 1000 chars.

A fix has been prepared that recognizes too long commands and produces an error message when attempting to create one, both via crontab(1) and cron(8). Furthermore, this limit has been documented in the man pages.

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This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-127ubuntu1

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cron (3.0pl1-127ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Move MTA to Suggests field.
    - debian/cron.upstart: Add Upstart script.
    - debian/rules: Call dh_installinit to install Upstart job properly.
    - d/cron.default: change to a deprecated message to make it clear
      that the file is no longer in use.

cron (3.0pl1-127) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop $READ_ENV from cron's command line. It does not belong there.
    Closes: #766779

cron (3.0pl1-126) unstable; urgency=low

  * Packaging (general): removed unused files from the source that had been
    already removed in 3.0pl1-117 but got reintroduced due to a merge.

cron (3.0pl1-125) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Acknowledge NMUs. Thanks, Laurent Bigonville and Ansgar Burchardt.
    Closes: #749271

  [ Christian Kastner ]
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed)
    - Canonicalize Vcs-* URLs
  * debian/copyright:
    - Bump years
    - Don't use spaces in License short name
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
    - Drop overrides from pre-UTF-8 debian/control era
  * debian/rules:
    - Extend documentation
  * debian/cron.init:
    - Include winbind in Should-Start/Stop. Closes: #732203
  * crontab.5:
    - Don't use hyphen as a minus sign
  * cron.8:
    - Drop stray words in cron.8. Thanks, Regid Ichira! Closes: #702091
    - Fix misspelled 'sytem'. Thanks, green! Closes: #753775
  * cron.c,crontab.c:
    - Use basename of argv[0] as syslog tag. Closes: #752750
  * cron.c:
     - Use case-insensitive comparison in charset selection. Thanks,
       Malcolm Scott! LP: #1169160
  * entry.c:
    - Detect invalid entry: step specified without a range. Thanks,
      Justin T. Pryzby! Closes: #733478
    - Error out when a command field is too long instead of silently
      truncating it. Closes: #686223, LP: #826702
  * do_command.c:
    - Fix initialization and increment of mailed bytes counter.
      Closes: #691488
  * cron.c, do_command.c:
    - Add an option -n to include FQDN in mail subject. Closes: #570423

  [ brian m. carlson ]
  * config.h, do_command.c:
    - Send proper 8-bit emails by including an appropriate MIME-Version and
      adjusting the Content-Transfer-Encoding header accordingly.
      Closes: #694686

  [ Javier Fernández-Sanguino ]
  * Change systemd definition in order for the daemon to read an honor
    /etc/default/cron (Closes: #754279)

cron (3.0pl1-124.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * debian/cron.service: Set IgnoreSIGPIPE=false. (Closes: #756047)
  * debian/cron.service: Add Documentation field.
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:19:21 +0100