Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation

[damian at sentex.net (Damian Gerow)]

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Thus spake Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki_(_at_)_ceti_(_dot_)_pl) [17/11/03 17:16]:
> > Thus spake Mikolaj Rydzewski (miki_(_at_)_ceti_(_dot_)_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.