On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:17:42 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Marc Haber wrote:
>> >I'm using Gentoo Linux.
>>
>> That surprises me ;)
>
>Why?
I remember you saying that you don't know much about Linux, and that
you are basically a Slowlartis guy.
>> Where do your cronjobs send mail to if they fail?
>
>Cronjobs? :-)
>
>Neither my laptop nor my home desktop are switched on all the time.
man anacron
>Consequently, the only cronjobs are a few that cycle log files etc.
>(when they get the chance). They tend not to fail.
logrotate wants to e-mail old logs if the number of logs to be kept is
exceeded, updatedb from findutils might fail.
Greetings
Marc
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