On Tuesday 12 July 2005 5:01 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2005-07-12 at 04:42 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
helphand:/etc/sysconfig # grep MAIL suseconfig MAIL_REPORTS_TO="root" # There are two levels of mailing. If you set MAIL_LEVEL it to "warn" MAIL_LEVEL="all" helphand:/etc/sysconfig #
and with this, root gets no mail at all?
No, we get emails, of course, but we we don't get the notices that used to be emailed to root on certain packages installation.
Note that the rpmnew/old files aren't reported in email, they are put in /var/log/update-messages when /etc/init.d/rpmconfigcheck runs
Yes, (some of) the notices are there, but not in my email, and I'm used to that, and I want that. I don't understand why they are not emailed.
This behaviour has changed since previous versions, I'm not sure how /var/log/update-messages is presented, if at all, but it is not among the files that gets sent to you
Not the file, but each notice individually, one email each.
And... that /var/log/update-messages is incomplete. Since I updated to 9.3, the only notices are:
rpmconfigcheck Sat Apr 23 04:59:31 CEST 2005 rpmconfigcheck Fri May 6 18:50:00 CEST 2005
That's all there is there! That's not the file. It doesn't contain what it should! That file contains over 6000 lines of reports, but all of them pertain to previous SuSE versions, except those two above.
As matter of fact, I got one email to root of the type I'm talking about, and it is not contained in that file:
154 Apr 26 root (1701) SuSEconfig: message for package krb5.1
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I didn't receive Anders original post here, which was replying to my reply (darn ISP of mine has some flakey servers that falsely throw 'no such user here' messages every once and awhile). Anyways, Carlos has hit the nail right on the head. His description is exactly what I am experiencing here. Root gets mail fine, it's just the update emails that are no longer getting delivered. If that's an intentional change on SuSE's part, then IMHO it's a step backwards... I found those emails invaluable and real timesavers. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)