On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:

On 12/31/2013 06:27 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

That seems to be made up. "ordinary users" are not reading mails send
to root or carefully reading /var/log/messages and to the extend any
user is wanting to go through logs, they will find the features of
integrated tools like journalctl much much more useful than raw grepping.

"Made up"? No. Rahul, "ordinary users" do read mail, and if they easily can find out how to use journalctl, they could equally easily find out how to get root mail sent to their own local mail spool

I don't buy into this argument at all. For one, there are graphical log utilities that a regular user would be a lot more comfortable and then root mail is mostly useless for a regular user. If you think a regular user is spending time reading mails from root or reading /var/log/messages, you got a definition of "normal user" that doesn't look anything close to realistic. Anyone who is interested enough in reading root mails in a Fedora box should be more than capable of installing an MTA.

Rahul