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Re: configuring Checksecurity to email reports to root



Thus spake Stefan Srdic:
> 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?
Yes, in fact I did misunderstand.  Sorry.  I have no knowledge of
checksecurity, so I will back out of this.
Steve

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