In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919457 it was found that kthresher was printing out the help content through cron when no configuration to take an action was defined. That was tackled with #59 and while that avoids printing the help to the cronjob/timers it does not solve the user experience when running kthresher on its own.
I've been talking about this with @jkirk (Debian package maintainer) and we believe that the -s,--show-autoremoval action is probably a better default action.
It is also some dialog going about the implementation in #59 about "hiding" the output from a cronjob/timer. I personally would like to avoid the noise of a daily email but I do see the importance of notifications. Seems then that #58 provides both of the best options moving out the noisy emails to the logs with a simple entry stating the actions or not from the run.
tonyskapunk
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5 years ago
In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919457 it was found that kthresher was printing out the help content through cron when no configuration to take an action was defined. That was tackled with #59 and while that avoids printing the help to the cronjob/timers it does not solve the user experience when running
kthresheron its own.I've been talking about this with @jkirk (Debian package maintainer) and we believe that the
-s,--show-autoremovalaction is probably a betterdefaultaction.It is also some dialog going about the implementation in #59 about "hiding" the output from a cronjob/timer. I personally would like to avoid the noise of a daily email but I do see the importance of notifications. Seems then that #58 provides both of the best options moving out the noisy emails to the logs with a simple entry stating the actions or not from the run.