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Re: Central register of package use

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote:

>Steve McIntyre:
>> Once it all works, the idea is to make a package consisting purely of 
>> a cron entry and documentation.
>
>A sysadmin should have to do something to enable this. If a sysadmin
>has to disable it, then someone is going to overlook it, and be very
>worried about it when they find out. Very worried people tend to make
>noises.
>
>It should not even be enough to just install the package. That can
>quite easily happen by mistake with dselect.
>
>You should require the sysadmin to edit the crontab, and have copious
>warnings about what is going to happen in the crontab. Anything less
>will mean taking unnecessary risks with bad publicity. We only have
>one reputation to destroy.

Yes, fine. Agreed 100%. By default the package as installed will not
actually do _anything_. The file /etc/cron.weekly/register (or whatever
it's going to be called) will have to be edited and "switched on" by the
sysadmin by default. The comments in the script will contain details of
exactly what it does and give assurances about confidentiality etc. OK?

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