[Savannah-cvs] [339] SavannahHosts: [vcs0] nobody alias to /dev/null

[bob]

Revision: 339
          
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=administration&revision=339
Author:   rwp
Date:     2017-05-13 14:21:36 -0400 (Sat, 13 May 2017)
Log Message:
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SavannahHosts: [vcs0] nobody alias to /dev/null

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/sviki/SavannahHosts.mdwn

Modified: trunk/sviki/SavannahHosts.mdwn
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--- trunk/sviki/SavannahHosts.mdwn      2017-05-06 03:06:59 UTC (rev 338)
+++ trunk/sviki/SavannahHosts.mdwn      2017-05-13 18:21:36 UTC (rev 339)
@@ -691,6 +691,14 @@
     apt-get install imagemagick gettext # used by savane php installation 
script
     apt-get install vim
 
+At least one version control hook script doesn't have a way to avoid
+sending anemail that isn't desired to be sent.  Therefore we send it
+to the `nobody` user which is the traditional Unix /dev/null user.
+However these days distros don't default all of those to `root`.
+Change `nobody` to /dev/null in order to provide this again.
+
+    sed 's/^nobody[ ]*:.*/nobody: /dev/null/' /etc/aliases
+
 Install required perl modules.  This module is not packaged.  We
 should upgrade to the currently supported module but just want to keep
 the same for the moment.  Using cpan like this as group `staff` (not