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This was scary to me as a young guy learning Linux 30 years ago. Turns out it's not reporting to anyone. :)
It in fact is reportet to the system admin. In that case you.
It's in a journalctl log (i think location is depending on distro)
Maybe if you have a local mail server set up on the system? Otherwise no way to report. :)
Otherwise it goes to your /var/mail I believe. Sadly they merged commit lately that removes this message
Yeah. Big sad.
No, that's what postfix is for.
It just printed into the system logs on my arch install(although this was a few installs ago... could've changed)
Linus Torvalds gets those reports and puts you on the naughty list
Now that's a grumpy Santa I can believe in.
It reports it to you ( the system admin )
Yeah. I think it's a holdover from earlier *NIX.