Re: Printing by default

Definitely makes sense to me!

On 5/6/07, Bjorn L. <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A bug was filed on Fedora because of the default
> behavior of Logwatch: the "mailto" configuration
> variable determines who receives the logwatch output.
>
> The default behavior for cron (or anacron) is for the
> user executing the program to receive the mail.  If a
> program outputs to standard output, cron compiles it
> into a file and then mails the file.  The Fedora
> version of cron also has a variable called MAILTO,
> which allows overrides.
>
> So I'd like to propose that we make the default to
> print to standard output, not email.  We let cron
> deal with creating the email.
>
> So for a default distribution, you still get an
> email.  When you execute it from a command line,
> you don't need to use "--print" to output to the
> terminal.  The only difference would be that by
> default, the sender and subject of the email is
> not set by the user in logwatch.conf.  Instead of
> 'Logwatch', the mail will appear to be sent
> by 'Cron Daemon', for example, with a cron-
> related subject.
>
> To revert to the old behavior, you can set
> Print = No
> in your /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf file.
>


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