Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases
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
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