Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:48:41AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:43:09AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> > > Probably it should be clearly stated in policy that the cron.*
> > > scripts may be quiet if no errors are encountered.
> > >
> > > Running logcheck can be really amusing sometimes ... ;)
> >
> > What do people think of this suggestion (s/may/MUST/)?
>
> I dislike it. It's possible some package will exist that is _designed_
> to fire off daily status reports by cron. We shouldn't prohibit such
> things without reason.
>
> Cron jobs seem to be quieted down very nicely when they accidentially
> become too verbose, just by user complaints and bug reports.
Reasonable concern and analysis of the situation. So let's let this
pre-proposal drop.
Julian
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