In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I have a system that I hadn't bothered adding "> dev/null" to the > appropriate place in /etc/cron.daily/cracklib to avoid the email > (slink distribution). It's on a seldom used system and I just never > bothered. I had hoped that the simple fix would be quickly uploaded > and I wouldn't need to bother. Well, it finally got to the point that > it was driving me crazy so I looked in the Debain mailing list archive > and applied the "> /dev/null". > > My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and > somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a > fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime?
Alas, it was a part of Debian for so long that we must now leave it in for backward compatibility. It is now a standard macro for configure to grep the root mailbox for 'cracklib' to determine if the macro is being run on a Debian system. -Mitch -- The above is both unhelpful and untrue --Mitch Blevins