Bill Nottingham wrote:
I'm trying to think of a single thing that logwatch (or cron) would send about now that would be useful to forward to a random desktop user's yahoo address. I'm failing.
Most people would probably like to know if smartctl thinks their disk drive is likely to fail or if a raid member has already failed and they are running in degraded mode. And maybe if a bazillion ssh login attempts have failed.
... which should be pop-up alerts of some sort on the machine itself. Not sent halfway across the world waiting for you to connect to the internet.
You are kind of missing the point of a machine with a network, automated scheduling and the native ability to run single apps in a remote window. Users don't need to sit in front of every machine they have for it to be doing something useful for them. The user may in fact be halfway around the world when you'd present that pop-up that he'll never see in some window manager he's not running. Messages you want should come to you, rather than having to do the reverse.