Bug#833662: apt-daily does not send e-mail as advertised
Control: severity -1 minor
On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.3~pre3
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> the /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily script holds documentation that the
> setting Periodic::Verbose influences e-mail sent to root. But it then
> only influences which part of output is sent to standard output and
> standard error.
>
> On systemd systems, the apt-daily.timer and apt-daily.service units
> that run this script do not set up e-mailing of the output to root.
> Hence, the output only ends up in the journal and not in root's
> mailbox, as advertised.
Yes, the documentation is wrong obviously, with the move to
systemd.
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