| Title: | SEAL |
| Moderator: | GALVIA::SMITH |
| Created: | Mon Mar 21 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1989 |
| Total number of notes: | 8209 |
Hi, some customers don't want *any* automatic firewall mail go to the user root. To save time, I use to edit some files in /usr/dfws/config then. Two things are unclear to me: 1.) I understand the meaning of event.action and report.conf . But "root" is also found in report.recp and firewall.conf (for dfw.mail) Can I look at these entries somewhere on the GUI? What are these values exactly used for? 2.) Having changed all that, there is still some mail going to root which is generated by cron jobs. How can I redirect that to another recipient? Thanks, Sebastian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 1871.1 | CHEFS::espol1.gmt.dec.com::PITT | Gone with the winsock ... | Mon Mar 17 1997 08:16 | 10 | |
This is discussed elsewhere in this notesfile ... as usually ... A cron job that runs as root will always mail to root if it has a problem. You can't change that. However, you can munge sendmail.cf so that any mail addressed simply to root (i.e. without an @ in the address) will go to someone else instead. See the other note ... T | |||||
| 1871.2 | ... and the 2 files | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Sebastian L�lsdorf | Thu Mar 20 1997 09:38 | 28 |
Thanks for your hint about cron mail, Tony. Concerning the 2 files I asked for: /usr/dfws/config/report.recp I found that you can change it from the GUI at "Customize Mail Reports", "Default Mail Recipient(s)". When you click on "Usage Reports", "Mail Report", the report is mailed to that recipient. It is strange that using the GUI changes the file from its factory-installed default line 'root' into 'sendto="somebody"'. Maybe the factory default is somewhat terse; at least it is misleading people like me using the editor. I'm sure this is for security reasons as ususal ;-) /usr/dfws/config/firewall.conf I still have no idea what 'dfw.mail' is used for and how it can be changed on the GUI. One more thing: In firewall.conf there is an entry 'reports.recipents'. Changing that doesn't seem to have any effect. There isn't a chksumfail alarm when pressing "Customize Mail Reports" either. Sebastian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||