Services automaticly change firewall rules to open access to themselfs.

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:53:35PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 10:32:42 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote
> 
> > For the disk drive part of this, it already exists. smartd does self
> > tests on disks and logs the messages. These messages get reported by
> > logwatch in an email message once a day.
> 
> It would be nicer if smartd could call out to the notify daemon to make
> a window appear on the users desktop.
> 
> Users do not read logwatch reports, the usually do not even get them.

Not that for many setups the person in front of the computer does not
have a root password and would prefer not to get spammed with messages
about things he can do nothing about (even if he did care).

For the record smartd does send emails right away if it detects
something wrong with the disk. 

Cheers,
Kostas Georgiou