None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Les Mikesell]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
>>> I understand where you are coming from but I have to say the above
>>> statement is, imo, fundamentally wrong.
>> I agree with Seth. Since most desktop users don't have a centralized
>> logserver but do have an e-mail account somewhere, it makes perfect sense.
>> We need to work some on getting e-mail going somewhere useful, though, and
>> on making the e-mails sent be not "junk".
> 
> I'm trying to think of a single thing that logwatch (or cron) would send
> about now that would be useful to forward to a random desktop user's yahoo
> address. I'm failing.

Most people would probably like to know if smartctl thinks their disk 
drive is likely to fail or if a raid member has already failed and they 
are running in degraded mode.   And maybe if a bazillion ssh login 
attempts have failed.   As for cron, that would be up to what the user 
has scheduled.  It just needs to behave as documented and expected.

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   Les Mikesell
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