None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Bill Nottingham]

Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>> 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.

Bill