On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 6:05 am, Stormjumper wrote: > referring to Derek's post on 27 Sep 2003, regarding exploits, i > attempted to follow advice on putting an email address and clicking > the check box for Security Alerts in Mandrake Control Center -> > Security -> Basic > > however, the check box option reverts to unchecked (unticked) and the > Security Administrator reverts to "default" the next time i enter the > MCC -> Security Panel. > > is there any reason for this, or any way to work around the > non-registering settings? > > or can i enter the values manually in a config file somewhere instead? > i looked inside /etc/security and /etc/security/msec, but couldn't > identify the corresponding config file. can someone direct me as to > what values to enter in which file? > > btw, i'm running 9.1. > > thanks
I don't know why your settings are not sticking, but you can edit the /etc/security/msec/security.conf file directly insert the line MAIL_USER= Also to get mails about failed cron jobs edit /etc/crontab and insert MAILTO= Don't forget for the mails to be sent you need a mail server such as postfix to be running. If you do not have a mail server then install ssmtp RPM and edit the mailhub parameter in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to send mails to your ISP derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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