Sugestions - System E-mail

[Paul Dwerryhouse]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:41:47AM -0700, redhat at buglecreek.com wrote:
> We have a large amount of redhat servers (50+).  They all run various
> cronjobs as root and other users that have accounts on the machines. 
> The scripts and cronjobs generate output which is mailed to the local
> user on the machine.  Standard cron stuff.  My issue is that these
> system mails unfortunately rarely get read by anyone.  

That is the problem with cron jobs that send mail every time they run,
and it makes them worthless. I recommend altering them so that they only
send mail on error conditions. 

Put aliases on all the machines so that the email gets forwarded to
the correct recipient(s), and configure the mail server on each machine
to be a satellite host, that does nothing more than forward its email to
a single, central smarthost.

After that, make a policy that states what staff have to do when they
receive the mail - which generally should involve fixing it ;)

Cheers,

Paul


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