On 12/31/2013 07:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I don't buy into this argument at all. For one, there are graphical log
utilities that a regular user would be a lot more comfortable and then
root mail is mostly useless for a regular user. If you think a regular
user is spending time reading mails from root or reading
/var/log/messages, you got a definition of "normal user" that doesn't
look anything close to realistic. Anyone who is interested enough in
reading root mails in a Fedora box should be more than capable of
installing an MTA.
What graphical log utilities are you thinking about?
Yes, regular users do spend time reading mail from root (after they have
found out how /etc/aliases work), and they do look at /var/log/messages.
Of course there are users that never have done either, but I would bet a
majority has (this based on people I know and have met since I started
with Linux mid 1990).
We should have sane defaults in the system. And providing a facility to
move mail locally is a good one. Why let the mails sent to root get
totally lost? As is the case in f20? Would it not be better to use an
MTA to move this to the main users mail spool (using /etc/aliases setup
at installation of the system)?
Why should we guard the user from seeing mail from the system? Or
provide a simple way for them to find out what is happening with the system?
How do you propose that we should make it simple for an ordinary user to
get information from and about the system?
Lars
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