Re: design issues in debian packages
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:37:31AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Brian May wrote:
> > 1) packages that create a new userid and send mail to that userid
> > without the administrator realizing. One great offender I just noticed
> > recently (and still have to fix) is cricket.
>
> cricket sends mail to root now. Is does have another major flaw related to
> email that explains your huge mailbox: if you ever get a single error that
> gets logged it will mail that error to you every time it runs after that,
> which is every 5 minutes by default.
Until that logfile is rotated, which by default is one week.
(I would appreciate feedback on that default, by the way...a week is fine
for my test configuration, but is definitely too long for a large config
tree...what is the average Cricket user doing?)
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- mdz
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