On Mon, 20.05.13 21:36, Reindl Harald (h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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 You know, I never doubted that delivering this by mail is very useful. However, the discussion is about defaults, and doing what you suggest above is already a departure from defaults (after all you edited /etc/aliases). But if you change configuration then you can also do "yum install sendmail" as part of your configuration change... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
