F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Mon Jul 15 21:31:38 UTC 2013


On 07/15/2013 04:17 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Then the syslog severities are configured wrong.  That's not a good
> justification for using email rather than syslog.

So, all users on a multi-user system are now expected to dig through
syslog output to see the output from their cron jobs?

And of course, syslog output will now be stored somewhere that is, by
default, world readable, right?

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