F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Jul 15 21:14:03 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:14:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> This feature is about not doign local mail delivery by default, by not
> installing any MTA. Instead you find the log output of cronjobs at the
> same place as you find any other log output, the journal/syslog, for
> example accessible via:
> 
> journalctl -u crond

But the information cron sends via email is usually more important than
the regular log entries, because output in cron jobs usually means there
is an error. It seems wrong to store the important data hidden among
less important data.

Regards
Till


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