Re: configuring Checksecurity to email reports to root
On January 12, 2002 02:28 pm, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Thus spake Stefan Srdic:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was going through the Securing Debian HOW-TO and noticed the section
> > on setuid check (4.11). I would like for the checksecurity script to
> > email root of any changes to the system. Will this work if I have exim
> > installed?
> >
> > Currently, exim forwards all mail from root to my day-to-day user. I
> > would like to be able to read any information that this script would have
> > for me through kmail :D
> >
> > Has anybody set this up?
> >
> > Stef
>
> I'm fairly sure this is handled by /etc/aliases for exim. I have
> lines like:
> postmaster: root
> root: steve #Steve being my ordinary account, obviously
> and it works great. I think this is part of eximconfig, although I
> don't remember exactly.
> HTH,
> Steve
You might have misunderstood me, my question was, will the checksecurity
script that runs from cron e-mail it's report to root if I have exim
installed?
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