On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:15:48PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > DSA informed me that testing samhain for piuparts.debian.org causes mails to > root@$slave which are very irritating to them, as they do use samhain as well. > > Copies of these mails can be found at > http://www.palfrader.org/volatile/2014-05-28-wVnu9SVZFqw/piuparts currently.
These mails are sent by samhain indeed. > As starting samhain is prevented via invoke-rc.d, I believe the culprit must > be within samhain's initscript, in these lines: > > if [ ! -f /var/state/samhain/samhain_file ] ; then > [ -f /var/log/samhain/samhain-init.log ] && rm -f > /var/log/samhain/samhain-init.log > echo "Creating samhain's file integrity database (this can take some > minutes)...." > samhain -t init >/var/log/samhain/samhain-init.log 2>&1 > fi This is probably the culprit. The samhain integrity database is required for samhain to start. I'm not sure how to tackle this issue. It never has been a problem for other samhain users. I guess I could defer the initialisation database to the first time samhain is started (through init) or I could add a debconf prompt to ask the admin user if he wants the integrity database to be initialised. For the time being, you could have in piuparts a samhainrc file that disables sending email. > What surprises me though, is that no other package (out of 40k packages) > doesnt produce mails to root - could you think of anything else producing > these mails? No, these look like samhain's emails. Regards Javier
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