Re: email from cracklib cron

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Phillip Deackes <gsmh@gmx.net> writes:
| glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan) 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". 
| 
| Sorry to be a little dense, but where in the /etc/cron.daily/cracklib
| file do I put > /dev/null?
| 
| This is the first I have heard about the problem, though I have noticed
| a lot of mail on my system for root originating from the cracklib cron
| entry.

Here's the whole section. It's toward the end of
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib 

  if [ -n "${cracklib_dictpath_src}"  -a  -n "${cracklib_dictpath}" ]
  then
    /usr/sbin/crack_mkdict ${cracklib_dictpath_src} |\
      /usr/sbin/crack_packer ${cracklib_dictpath} > /dev/null
  fi

Gary