RE: when are email alerts sent ?

[Martin, Jason H]

CFEngine generally doesn't send any messages (no news == good news)
unless you set inform=true for those stanzas. Checksum differences are a
special case that always send messages.

-Jason Martin

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> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:20 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: when are email alerts sent ?
> 
> 
> Guys
> 
> I have been searching forever to find out what exactly causes cfexecd 
> to send email alerts and how to tune it.
> It doesn't seem very consistent at all.
> 
> I seem to only get one single alert and that is when i do an 
> up2date on 
> a package like util-linux f.e. which upgrades /bin/mount.
> I have this in cfagent.conf :
> 
> files:
>   /etc/passwd mode=644
>   owner=root
>   group=root
>   action=fixall
>   /etc/shadow mode=600
>   owner=root
>   group=root
>   action=fixall
>   /etc/group mode=644
>   owner=root
>   group=root
>   action=fixall
>   /bin/mount mode=4755
>   owner=root
>   group=root
>   action=fixall
>   checksum=md5
>   /usr/bin/sudo owner=root
>   group=root
>   mode=4111
>   checksum=md5
>   action=fixall
> 
> As aI said upgrading the binary causes an email alert to be 
> sent about 
> the checksum having changed. However, if I mess with permissions and 
> wait cfexecd will simply fix them but no alerts at all.
> I was under the impression that every action that is carried out gets 
> emailed to sysadm. What is the difference between a checksum 
> change and 
> a permission change ?
> 
> Also, has anyone seen the totally messed up FROM address those emails 
> come from ? My cfengine box' hostname is cfengine and a look into the 
> maillog show that the mail comes from :
> 
> cfengine@sysadmin@domain.com...in other words it seems to craft the 
> FROM field by doing this: hostname@sysadm.
> 
> If I add the EmailFrom directive it only changes the from field I see 
> in the actual email. The maillog still shows the wrong source address.
> 
> help ? 
> 
> 
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