a modest request

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:26:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> If your disk is beyond remapping, the smart daemon (on by default) will
> send you a nice mail saying that your disk is going bad.

This is a good reason I'd like to see trying to move towards a
rootless install with an sudo-like controlled administrator. I'm not
sure how many users, especially the first time users, know about the
sorts of emails like smart's that can be sent to root user.  It would
be really keen if these sorts of mails could be sent to a normal user
account in home lan situations without the user even knowing that
smart is actually there and needs to be reconfigured to send mail to
non-root.  Also is this sort of thing a candidate for the mystical
'notification bubbles' concept?

-jef