Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:52:27 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm pretty solidly of the opinion that email is nowhere near being
the most sensible way to get important information to a typical
desktop user. If a failure is important then the user needs to know
about it as soon as possible - mail provides no guarantees about
timely delivery. We have plenty of desktop infrastructure to give
important alerts to users, we're just failing to do so.
If local delivery of mail fails, there's no reason to think any other
notification method would have succeeded.
local mail is rather taxing on a system.
Which is why mail is a sensible delivery mechanism. It already knows
how to deliver elsewhere if you want.
If a harddisk is marginal for
example... a mail delivery will cause the entire pagecache to be
written to the disk, and guess what... the MTA will get stuck on that.
Which is why it is important to get the warning messages from smartctl
and the disk space check _before_ you are toast. Face it - nothing is
going to save you after the disk fries or is completely out of space.
And that assumes that the local user even reads "root" email.
That's the piece that needs to be fixed.
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