On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Actually, working by default for things like smartctl is also really
important (I'd like to know if my HD is about to go belly-up, thank
you!), but at least we have the excuse that smartctl never worked nicely
to begin with.
But see, it doesn't "work by default". By default (with sendmail) mail
is just dropped in /var/spool/mail/root. The user is given no hint,
documentation, or otherwise notification that they may want to configure
some email client to subscribe to this, which is quite difficult as a
normal user to subscribed to /var/spool/mail/root . Things certainly
don't "work by default". If you're interested in them working by
default, I would suggest helping out the situation and ensuring that
this vastly important email is delivered to the user rather than some
spool file a user has no access to.
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