Package: amanda-common Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3 Severity: normal I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as user backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you never log onto the user backup long enough to have the shell check for mail, or otherwise check /var/mail, you never learn of those emails.
Proposed solution: add an entry "backup: root" to /etc/aliases and run newaliases at installation time (assuming both are present). I see this in Squeeze (amanda 1:2.6.1p2-3), but I believe it also applies to Wheezy (1:3.3.1-4) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages amanda-common depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent ii debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii heirloom-mailx [ma 12.4-2 feature-rich BSD mail(1) ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii perl [perl5] 5.10.1-17squeeze6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii tar 1.23-3 GNU version of the tar archiving u ii update-inetd 4.38+nmu1+squeeze1 inetd configuration file updater ii xinetd [inet-super 1:2.3.14-7 replacement for inetd with many en amanda-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages amanda-common suggests: ii amanda-client 1:2.6.1p2-3 Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ -- Configuration Files: /etc/amandahosts [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/amandahosts' /etc/xinetd.d/amanda changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130524161315.11614.73310.reportbug@yendi.localdomain