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If it's +</I>>>>>><i> better that msec do not send emails by default, I think this change +</I>>>>>><i> should be done in cauldron only, maybe with some note about this change +</I>>>>>><i> in the release notes for Mageia 2. +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Agree. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> A question : wouldn't changing the default in _both_ cauldron and an update +</I>>>><i> to mga1 be acceptable ? +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> I think stable updates should not change defaults. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Since I really think that sending messages silently to dead.letter, +</I>>>><i> gradually filling up the disk is a bug. (When I first discovered the +</I>>>><i> problem on my system a few years ago, dead.letter used about 1G of disk +</I>>>><i> space in my root partition.) +</I>>>><i> That is what happens with the default setting, if an MTA is not installed. +</I>>>><i> At the default settings with an MTA installed, the root mailbox gradually +</I>>>><i> fills up the disk, if it is not emptied. And a less informed user is +</I>>>><i> unlikely to realise this. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> So it seems to me that as a minimum, the default should be changed to _not_ +</I>>>><i> send alert emails. Since the status is visible on the main msec screen, +</I>>>><i> informed users should have no problem appropriately adjusting the setting. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> To deal with the potential problem of users who use the email alert feature +</I>>>><i> having it deactivated by the update, we only need a warning in the update, +</I>>>><i> as often occurs for other packages. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> Updates should not require manual changes. And not everybody read the +</I>>><i> update logs from urpmi. People can expect important changes when upgrading +</I>>><i> to a new version of the distribution, and that's why there is release +</I>>><i> notes to explain the important changes, but not for stable updates. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> Personally I am much more likely to notice the update log message from +</I>><i> urpmi than everything in the release notes. I make a point of reading the +</I>><i> former, which necessarily affect an application that I have installed. +</I>><i> Most of the release notes comments are either painfully obvious, or affect +</I>><i> something that I don't have installed or don't care about, so I tend to +</I>><i> miss many details until I run into a problem. +</I>><i> In this particular case, the problem would be not getting msec +</I>><i> notifications. +</I> +People should not expect an update to change something that has been the +default for years. This kind of change should be done for a new release +of the distribution, not in updates. If you don't read the release +notes when doing upgrade changing important things, but always read +urpmi logs of updates that are supposed to have minimal changes, then +you're doing something wrong, but I hope not everybody does that. + +><i> +</I>><i> Although I realise that in general it would be better to avoid significant +</I>><i> changes in updates, in this case I think that most users would be better +</I>><i> served by this change being introduced in an update, rather than in a +</I>><i> release. +</I> +So you want to break something for some user, to improve it for some +others ? + +This has been the default for years. I don't see any reason to urgently +change this with an update. + +><i> +</I>>>><i> Something like "If you use the msec alert emails, please verify that the +</I>>>><i> alerts are still active." Note that if the user has ever explicitly set +</I>>>><i> alerts, they would be still active. +</I>>>><i> +</I>><i> I was mistaken. But editing /etc/security/msec/security.conf to add the +</I>><i> line "MAIL_WARN=yes" will protect from a default of "MAIL_WARN=no". +</I>><i> (Tested.) +</I>><i> +</I>>>><i> This potential problem would exist even if the next update for the user is +</I>>>><i> mga2. +</I>>>><i> However, if the update is on mga2 (from changes in cauldron), wouldn't the +</I>>>><i> change in defaults be less visible ? +</I>>>><i> +</I>><i> [...] +</I>>>><i> According to documentation, dma is only active if no other MTA is installed. +</I>>>><i> (I don't know if the priority is what causes this.) +</I>>>><i> So at worst dma would be a (very small) harmless extra install, at best it +</I>>>><i> would ensure the ability for local delivery. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> Then dma could be installed by default on mageia 2, this would fix the +</I>>><i> problem for all programs using the sendmail command, not only msec, +</I>>><i> without adding a require on dma. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That would work, as long as it is a "require" of Mageia 2. +</I> +Not a require, but installed by default. And msec should have a require +on sendmail-command. + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008964.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008984.html">[Mageia-dev] [RFC] msec (nail) can't send reports to local users accounts - require an MTA? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8973">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8973">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8973">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8973">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |