Re: email from cracklib cron

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the
> appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email
> (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never
> bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would be quickly uploaded
> and I wouldn't need to bother. Well, it finally got to the point that
> it was driving me crazy so I looked in the Debain mailing list archive
> and applied the "> /dev/null". 
> 
> My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and
> somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a 
> fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime?

Alas, it was a part of Debian for so long that we must now leave it in
for backward compatibility.  It is now a standard macro for configure
to grep the root mailbox for 'cracklib' to determine if the macro
is being run on a Debian system.

-Mitch
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