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On 2013-05-04 7:46 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following: |
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>> Oh... ok, well, now I'm just wondering why it decided to install it all |
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>> of a sudden... |
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> mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail |
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> via shell scripts |
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> mail-mta/ssmtp: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub |
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> They are totally different and not alternate of each other. |
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Well, I'm using msmtp not ssmtp, but yeah, I was having tunnel vision. |
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On 2013-05-05 5:45 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> /usr/portage/app-forensics/rkhunter/ChangeLog shows two recent |
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> dependency fixes, which each reference a bug report. In this case |
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> it's bug #398123, according to which rkhunter uses the "mail" command |
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> in its daily cron job. Obviously, without a /bin/mail provider |
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> installed (what virtual/mailx is for), the mails will never get sent. |
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> Instead, you (hopefully) get error messages from cron. |
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Ah, ok, makes sense now. I had installed rkhunter a week or two ago but |
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had commented the cron job when working on something else, but never |
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re-enabled it, and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting those emails (to |
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remind me to go back and re-enable it). |
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I was getting other system emails (ie, portage), so didn't realize I |
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needed something else (a client) for these kinds of emails. |
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Anyway, sorry for the noise... |
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