mån 2013-07-22 klockan 18:36 +0200 skrev Lennart Poettering:
> Despite that I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail
> (like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and
> should much rather be treated exactly like all other log output. There's
> nothing special really about cron that would make it so much better
> suitable for sending out its logs per mail, rather then just log them.
Yeah, as a sysadmin I'm mostly annoyed by services that send mail and
expect someone to have time to read them. Give me a current status that
can be monitored as appropriate (desktop notifications, Nagios etc) and
logs so I can go back and see what went wrong.
Also, I think people who are new to this stuff are much more likely to
look for logs than for mail ("what, computers can have mail on them?")
when they're trying to figure out what's happening.
It is however a bit scary if the behavior of cron changes when someone
installs an MTA. I think -s should be the default, but MAILTO= should
have precedence over -s.
/Alexander
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