Chris Murphy writes:
Now there will be some additional users talking to upstream
developers to incorporate better means of notification rather
than depending on emails that obviously aren't being seen by most
peopel anyway,
Was there actually a poll taken about who is using mail on their
desktops? I didn't see one, so I don't know the percentage of MTA
users, but as a long-time technical user, I have always run an MTA and
use it often as a lightweight way to communicate results of jobs such as
backups, SPICE simulations, general cron cleanup scripts and so forth.
All it takes is to add something like:
echo "Memory error in cleanup script" | mail staff
Boom. I get timely notification right where I need it - in the
one place that I check multiple times per day - my inbox.
I guess I'll just add one more thing to my post-install checklist.
One of the nice things about UNIX is the clean and minimal ethic that it
was born with. I think that we need to work to keep it as simple as
possible - especially in the core system. Otherwise it becomes nearly
impossible to learn and less maintainable over time.
kind regards,
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Rick Walker