[1079] in NetBSD-Development
Re: how do people feel about changing the default cron shit?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Oct 23 02:35:04 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 02:33:55 -0400
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1078] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> Since most people don't want to get the daily/weekly/monthly cron output
Please provide some evidence.
> nor do they want the security reports by mail,
See above.
> but in general want to get mail to root (and may possibly choose to
> view those outputs).. how do people feel about changing the crontab
> and the daily script to not use tee, but instead just output it to a
> file?
The real problem is that the reports have redundant superfluous
information. They also have useful information. I've been meaning
to fix this, but there was never any pressure from anyone before :-).
The one on granola is somewhat improved, and I'll get around to
fixing it up some more later.
> I've already done that for several people, but it would be nice if
> we had that happen by default...
Bad yoav!
I'll try and address this this week.
--jhawk
