Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation

From: Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki_at_ceti.pl)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:14:01 +0100 (CET)
To: isp@freebsd.org

    On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:

    > Thus spake Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki@ceti.pl) [17/11/03 16:20]:
    > > Why don't you like the idea: no output means no errors? Just create your
    > > periodic scripts to produce no output when everything is fine. Cron will
    > > not mail you anything what has produced no results.
    >
    > What if someone hacks into your server, and just turns off periodic
    > mailings?

    So he is able to spoof output of anything. 

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