[lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

[Jeff Licquia]

On 07/11/2013 04:43 AM, Aaron Sowry wrote:
> According to [1], an LSB-compliant system must provide a crontab as
> specified by [2]. In turn, [2] stipulates that:
> 
> "If standard output and standard error are not redirected by commands
> executed from the crontab entry, any generated output or errors will be
> mailed, via an implementation-dependent method, to the user."
> 
> Now I realise that this is a description of how cron should behave, not
> sendmail, and that it is valid for sendmail to return an error to cron.
> However, returning an error intentionally, every time, reminds be
> painfully of [3]. I think that setting a precedent by allowing this
> behaviour is detrimental to the LSB.

When we were having this conversation before, I had the idle thought of
writing a "desktop sendmail" that basically re-implements traditional
email into a desktop service, using libnotify and a "System Notices" UI
strategy.  This would be the zero-config email system that would satify
everyone.

Of course, I've got too much to do already, so it never happened.  Feel
free to "steal" the idea. :-)
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