thanks to jonathan, james, and tony for your suggestions and help. i am embarrased to say that the problem happened to be the cron job script. i had obviously edited the file and deleted the line "MAILTO=root"!!! AAAARRRRGGGGG.
my most grevious problems are self-inflicted! gack! On Monday 02 December 2002 10:16 am, you did posit: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Allen Wayne Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 1:27 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Tripwire Report via Mail > > > > > > hi all: > > > > i am having a most curious problem with tripwire on one of my > > servers. it > > will not mail the report to the GLOBALEMAIL recepient. the server and > > workstations work fine. the two servers are near identical, > > one being the > > fall back for the other. their configuration files > > (twcfg.txt) are identical. > > i have done ./twinstall.sh and tripwire --init -c twcfg.txt > > -p twpol.txt > > numerous times in an attempt to get the mail to work. Cron > > run-parts and > > LogWatch both run fine and mails the reports on both machines. just a > > weirdness with tripwire. > I had the same problem and this is how I fixed it, according to the header > of my policy > file: > Email support is not included and must be added to this file. > Add the 'emailto=' to the rule directive section of each rule (add a comma > after the 'severity=' line and add an 'emailto=' and include the email > addresses you want the violation reports to go to). Addresses are > semi-colon delimited. > > So, I modified the policy file to include emailto = <email address>. > > example follows: > # Tripwire Binaries > ( > rulename = "Tripwire Binaries", > severity = $(SIG_HI), > emailto = root > ) > > root is aliases to another address, but you could put any e-mail address in > there that > you want. Don't forget to modify every section you want e-mail from, > install the policy file, and you should be good to go. > > JMF > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- regards, allen wayne best, esq "your friendly neighborhood rambler owner" "my rambler will go from 0 to 105" Current date: 46:20:19::336:2002 Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and thence by dispatch to our headquarters. We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Government holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the character, wit, and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg your indulgence. Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elucidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government so that I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these barren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my ability, but I cannot do both: 1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the benefit of the accountants and copy-boys in London or perchance: 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain. -- Duke of Wellington, to the British Foreign Office, London, 1812 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
