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Re: design issues in debian packages



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Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

Resulting in (worst-case) 2015 repeats.  Yuck!  A mechanism as used by
logcheck (or similar) that only mails new entries in the logs would be
a big improvement.

> (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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