F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Robert Nichols rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net
Mon Jul 22 20:26:18 UTC 2013


On 07/22/2013 11:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>  I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail
> (like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and
> should much rather be treated exactly like all other log output. There's
> nothing special really about cron that would make it so much better
> suitable for sending out its logs per mail, rather then just log them.

How many megabytes can the log system reasonably accept in a single message?
The output from a cron job can be a lot more than what anyone would
consider to be a reasonable log message.

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