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Re: design issues in debian packages



On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 01:38, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > Or does that fail for some weird reason?
>
> That would hide errors. The proper solution which current packages iirc
> is to set the MAILTO variable in the crontab to root.

No!  Programs that mailbomb root are EVIL.

It should append output to a log file, then logcheck can catch it and send a 
summary in a single email to root.

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