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Am Sat, 04 May 2013 18:15:20 -0400 |
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schrieb Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>: |
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> On 2013-05-04 6:01 PM, Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of mailx is |
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> > mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote). mail-client/mailx is |
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> > simply a command line email client used for automating the sending and |
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> > receiving of emails; on my system it is as far as I can tell only used by |
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> > smartmontools. |
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> > |
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> > Unless msmtp also provides {,/usr}/bin/mail there isn't really an issue here. |
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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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> <shrug> |
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That's what the ChangeLog files are |
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for: /usr/portage/app-forensics/rkhunter/ChangeLog shows two recent dependency |
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fixes, which each reference a bug report. In this case it's bug #398123, |
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according to which rkhunter uses the "mail" command in its daily cron job. |
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Obviously, without a /bin/mail provider installed (what virtual/mailx is for), |
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the mails will never get sent. Instead, you (hopefully) get error messages from |
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cron. |
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> Thanks |
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HTH |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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