On Mon, 20.05.13 21:36, Reindl Harald (h.reindl(a)thelounge.net) wrote:
> by default all mail messages go to root which you need root
> permissions to access them so it's not really an argument
and on most setups i know /etc/aliases contains
"root: whoever(a)domain.tld" and the *main* difference
is that you have to search in your logs manually and
mails are coming if whatever event happened directly
to your inbox
if a disk dies it is nice to have it in syslog but
it is useless if you see it days later while a mail
from crond is more or less real time
until you watched the event in the syslog other
people have replaced the drive long ago, where i
work it takes 3-5 hours to get a spare drive
You know, I never doubted that delivering this by mail is very
useful. However, the discussion is about defaults, and doing what you
suggest above is already a departure from defaults (after all you edited
/etc/aliases). But if you change configuration then you can also do "yum
install sendmail" as part of your configuration change...
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.