Re: [Logwatch] Fwd: Default to STDOUT: is it really a good thing?

"Jason Frisvold" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/26/07, Mike Tremaine <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wasn't a big fan of the change either but I don't think it is that big
> of a deal. Yes most Logwatch installs use email as the output method.
> Still most install are also default Redhat/Fedora rpms, they can set the
> default back to email in their rpm no problem. Anyone who is installing
> by hand can probably take the extra 10 secs to switch to email default
> once they get everything they way they want it.

Agreed.  I don't think it's that big a deal either.  I saw the change
in the changelog, spent a few seconds investigating, and then added
Print=no to my config.  Poof, all set up.  :)

> Getting HTML output it actually looking pretty good these days, I did a
> dist.conf especially for the Endian Firewall project and I really like
> the way it turned out. In this case it is not email but a saved file in
>   HTML. I think we will start seeing more of these types of deployments.
> So the argument that we've always done email it should be email forever
> doesn't really sway me that much. Even though the first thing I'll do
> when I update logwatch is switch it back to email default :).

Hrm..  HTML mail sounds interesting..  I'll have to look into that..

> -Mike

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