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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