[Wylug-discuss] Cron report messages - WORKING

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 16 Dec 2005 12:23, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 16 Dec 2005 11:58, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > Check your email logs to see if the workstation is currently
> > sending reports that are bouncing or getting filed somewhere
> > unexpected. Most likely thing is that reports are being sent, but
> > that the sender address/domain or recipient domain is something
> > that other systems refuse because it is invalid.
>
> It doesn't seem to be so.  I checked /var/spool/mail.  There's
> nothing in errors, and nothing in warnings.  Running the cron job
> 'now' from webmin doesn't create anything in info if I run it without
> the nail command, but creates an entry for the message (which is
> delivered) if it has the nail comand.
>

I set up a cron chkrootkit on the laptop, and it ran perfectly and gave 
me the required report, so I came back to this workstation.  I set up 
additional cron chkrootkit jobs for experimentation, and first found 
that I could get the reports sent, but they were being delivered 
to /var/spool/mail on the local box - which they had not been before.  
Further checks showed that in my experimentations I had set the root 
alias to just 'anne' at some point, so I reset it to anne at lydgate.net 
and now all is well.  They are being delivered to the imap server.

I was going to say 'SOLVED' rather than 'WORKING' but that would be an 
overstatement.  I could have sworn that this was where I started from, 
but obviously I must have altered something somewhere.

Thanks for all the help/suggestions.

Anne
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