Re: cracklib mail

[Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Max wrote:

> -- Start of included mail From:  Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Max wrote:
> > 
> > > I keep on getting bizarre mail from cracklib every single day with the
> > > following message:
> > > 
> > > /etc/cron.daily/cracklib:
> > > 45375 45375
> > > 
>
> I'm using the same version, and here's the key section of my
> /etc/cron.daily/cracklib:
> 
>     /usr/sbin/crack_mkdict ${cracklib_dictpath_src} |\
>       /usr/sbin/crack_packer ${cracklib_dictpath}
> 
> The man page says that crack_packer creates 3 files, yet there's no
> mention of anything being sent to standard output, so I don't know if
> adding "> /dev/null" to the end of the line will do anything, or will
> it?

Ooops ... I have a locally modifed version.  Yes, adding the ">
/dev/null" at the end of the line will solve this problem.

I'm the maintainer for cracklib2.  I'm planning on a new release in
the next few weeks and I'll fix this bug at the same time. 

-- 
Jean Pierre