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Re: Cron errors from lintian.d.o



On 2012-02-02 22:15, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 15:35 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Short story: Is it possible to receive the cron mails from lintian.d.o?
>>  If so, how?
> [...]
>> I decided to check up on our cron errors and currently there are a tons
>> of cron mails in /var/mail/lintian (~4.8 MB worth).
> 
> The approach that at least some other services (release, buildd, qa)
> take is to have a cron-errors@ alias, to which the crontab sets MAILTO.
> lintian.d.o is explicitly declared not to have a mail service though, so
> that won't work.
> 
> Probably the easiest solution would be to add a /home/lintian/.forward
> and send the mails somewhere sensible.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 

Sorry for reviving this, but I forgot about this.

Would people mind if I setup a forward to this list or should I simply
just forward the cron-mails to myself (and other interested individuals)?

~Niels


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