On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:57:37PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:50:47PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I worry about the security implications of mail that would have gone
> to root@ being either silently discarded or unknowingly ignored.
That *is* the current case on these systems. The mail happens to live in
/var/spool/mail/root, where it accumulates silenty, but the difference
between that and /dev/null is practically small.
Bash usually tells you when there is mail in the spool, which is IMHO a
big difference to /dev/null.
Regards
Till