Le samedi 15 octobre 2011 à 12:36 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > Hell no. I'd go as far as labelling it a severity:critical bug. Go ahead, reporting bugs doesn’t necessarily get people to give a fuck. > If some part of the system has something important to say, you need to tell > it to the user -- or face serious data loss. Mails sent to root are > something important (or the part which sends them should be spanked for > spamming). You seem to be unaware of the fact that users faced with too many messages or alerts will discard them without reading. This is part of what makes Vista a security disaster. > I've recently attempted to recover data lost by a client -- they had a RAID1 > setup. It turns out one of the disks failed seven months ago, mdadm duly > kept notifying about that, but this wonderous Gnome feature meant no one > knew. And seven months later, the other disk failed... In squeeze, GNOME prints alerts about failing disks. This is the perfect example of a well-defined error message that the user can take action upon. This is also a perfect example where using syslog would be completely irrelevant. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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