Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation

From: Damian Gerow (damian_at_sentex.net)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:21:48 -0500
To: isp@freebsd.org

    )
    Thus spake Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki@ceti.pl) [17/11/03 17:16]:
    > > 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.

    Yes, but it's considerably more difficult to spoof something than to just
    turn it off.

    What about these options:

        - something in your mail system dies, and the mail can't make it out of
          the box
        - the alias for root is removed
        - a poorly written script trashes all the messages, so nothing is mailed

    There's any number of reasons just *not* mailing anything is a bad idea --
    it's better to send a note that says, 'Hey, everything checked out okay.'
    So long as everything *did* check out okay.
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