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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:14:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Mikolaj Rydzewski <miki@ceti.pl>
To:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311172312540.609@hermes.dom>
In-Reply-To: <20031117212417.GL98840@sentex.net>
References:  <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD7091655D2@xmb03crdge.crd.ge.com> <20031117212417.GL98840@sentex.net>

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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.

-- 
Mikolaj Rydzewski      <miki@ceti.pl>        http://ceti.pl/~miki/
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There are three kinds of people: men, women and unix.



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