Bill Nottingham wrote:
Matthew Miller (mattdm@mattdm.org) said:
I understand where you are coming from but I have to say the above statement is, imo, fundamentally wrong.
I agree with Seth. Since most desktop users don't have a centralized logserver but do have an e-mail account somewhere, it makes perfect sense. We need to work some on getting e-mail going somewhere useful, though, and on making the e-mails sent be not "junk".
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. As for cron, that would be up to what the user has scheduled. It just needs to behave as documented and expected.