Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

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On Mon, 15.07.13 10:52, Florian Weimer (fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> >The various tools (such as cron) which previously required a local MTA for
> >operation have been updated already to deliver their job output to syslog
> >rather than sendmail, which is a good default.
> 
> syslog or the journal?  Wouldn't the journal make more sense because
> of spoof protection and and the amount of the data that cron can
> write?

Whatever is written to syslog these days ends up in the journal first
and is then forwarded to a syslog implementation that might be running.

So you do get the spoof protection this way.

Lennart

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