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Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet



On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Seth Arnold wrote:

>* Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> [010220 07:29]:
>> Good.  How about something like "cron.* scripts should not produce any
>> non-error output in general.  An exception may be made if the
>> intention of the script is to mail a status report to root."
>
>Why specifically root? I could imagine situations where a cron script
>may be setup to mail to some other user and yet still want to be
>installed through the Debian system.

It already exists.  Snort can be set up via debconf to send output to any
account.

>I'd like to suggest deleting "to root".
>
>

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