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On 2014-01-19 7:55 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 07:22:30 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> I use plus addressing extensively (for mail filtering mostly), but for |
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>> the life of me cannot figure out how to get cron emails to have a |
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>> different MAILFROM other than just 'root'. |
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>> I'd like for each job to have a different MAILFROM... ie: |
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>> rkhunter cronjob should be from host+rkhunter@×××××××.com, etc... |
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>> Anyone know how to do this? I can't believe it isn't possible... |
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> cron mails are sent from the user running the cron job, but some programs |
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> have an option to set the address for any mails they send (not their |
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> stdout that goes through cron). rkhunter is one of these. |
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Yes, and I have set it, but it doesn't change the MAILFROM. |
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Here is what I have in /etc/cron.daily/rkhunter: |
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> # Set this to 'yes' if you wish the output to be mailed to you |
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> SEND_EMAIL=yes |
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> # NOTE: the following EMAIL_* variables are only relevant if you set the |
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> # SEND_EMAIL variable to 'yes' |
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> EMAIL_SUBJECT="${HOSTNAME}: rkhunter output" |
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> EMAIL_SENDER="myhost+rkhunter@×××××××.com" |
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> EMAIL_RECIPIENT="myuser+rkhunter-report@×××××××.com" |
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> EMAIL_CMD="|mail -s \"${EMAIL_SUBJECT}\" ${EMAIL_RECIPIENT}" |
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I get the email, but it says it is from 'root'. |
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I also tried commenting out entirely the EMAIL_CMD line, but then I |
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don't get the email at all. |
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So, am I missing something? |
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