a modest request (smartd email redirection....)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 18.12.2004 kl. 01.46 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:35:23 -0800, William Hewitt <wphewitt at bpa.gov> wrote:
> >> Michal Jaegermann said:
> >> Maybe install should ask data for this alias and fill that lines
> >> unless specifically and emphatically declined?  The big advantage is
> >> that this solves the issue in a general way instead for some
> >> specific cases like smart.
> 
> > Or perhaps in FirstBoot(?)
> 
> 
> I was actually trying to use the smartd specific example of the need
> for a more general solution to the problem of relying of users to
> interact with the system as root users in a number of ways in order to
> see useful information.  How many users see the logging and
> notification information the system could be producing? How many users
> actually login as root and read roots local email?  In a home system
> situations i doubt its very many. In large multiuser corporate network
> you can probably reasonably rely on it. 

Not on every workstation...

>  On hobbiest desktops and
> workstations its going to depend heavily on that person's experience
> level, new people coming in to the fedora process as their first
> venture into linux i doubt are going to know check roots email for
> this sort of notification.
> 
> -jef