On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:57:37PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:50:47PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone > > to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored. > > That *is* the current case on these systems. The mail happens to live in > /var/spool/mail/root, where it accumulates silenty, but the difference > between that and /dev/null is practically small. Bash usually tells you when there is mail in the spool, which is IMHO a big difference to /dev/null. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel