Am 20.05.2013 21:30, schrieb Peter Robinson: >> I suggest not, because in most cases reviewing syslogs requires local >> root privilege. Alert or warning emails are easily configured with >> aliases or "MAILTO" settings for cron jobs to go somewhere safer and >> less security sensitive, even somewhere offsite, with much less work. > > by default all mail messages go to root which you need root > permissions to access them so it's not really an argument and on most setups i know /etc/aliases contains "root: whoever@xxxxxxxxxx" and the *main* difference is that you have to search in your logs manually and mails are coming if whatever event happened directly to your inbox if a disk dies it is nice to have it in syslog but it is useless if you see it days later while a mail from crond is more or less real time until you watched the event in the syslog other people have replaced the drive long ago, where i work it takes 3-5 hours to get a spare drive
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