I am now seeing logs within the maillog after following Bill's advice.
Thank you for your replys and happy coding!
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Richard <[email protected]
> wrote:
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015 09:11:10 AM -0400
> > From: Bill Arlofski <[email protected]>
> >
> > On 05/14/2015 01:33 AM, Kelvin Minter wrote:
> >> Hello I am running bacula 5.2.13 on CentOS 6.6.
> >>
> >> I have the following configuration for my messages in
> >> /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
> >>
> >> Messages {
> >> Name = Standard
> >> mailcommand = "/usr/bin/mutt -F /root/.muttrc-bacula -s
> >> \"Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\" %r"
> >> operatorcommand = "/usr/bin/mutt -F /root/.muttrc-bacula -s
> >> \"Bacula: Intervention needed for %j\" %r"
> >>
> >> mail = [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> = all,
> >> !skipped operator = [email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]> = mount console = all, !skipped,
> >> !saved
> >>
> >> append = "/var/log/bacula/bacula.log" = all, !skipped
> >> catalog = all
> >> }
> >>
> >> When I run mutt on the command line it proceeds and I am able to
> >> receive the mail at my destination address.
> >> However, when running a job I receive no email upon completion of
> >> the job and no log is created within bacula or maillog.
> >>
> >> I am using tls for postfix but this should be no issue as I can
> >> run the above mailcommand from the command line and receive an
> >> email.
> >>
> >> Using bsmtp (Unable to send because I need to run through tls)
> >> will produce an erroneous entry in the maillog file.
> >>
> >> I am stumped on how to debug further to determine where the mail
> >> is being caught up at. It seems to have to be something on
> >> bacula's end.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Hi Kelvin,
> >
> > I would first check to see what user that the bacula-dir daemon is
> > running as:
> >
> ># ps axuf | grep bacula-dir
> >
> > On some distributions, the director runs as user "bacula", on
> > others (like Gentoo) it runs as user "root". The director does not
> > need to run as root, but some distributions package Bacula so that
> > it does.
> >
> > You are pointing mutt to a config file in the root user's home
> > directory, perhaps mutt, running as "bacula" when called by the
> > director simply can not read the config file and exits?
> >
> >
> > Bill
>
> >From your slightly obscured configuration, I'm assuming that you're
> trying to deliver the mail directly from bacula to your remote mail
> server, not localhost, which is why you have the bsmtp/TLS issue. I
> believe that if you use the default Bacula bsmtp setup to deliver to
> localhost and then alias the recipient off (with an entry in
> /etc/aliases) you should be ok. That approach will invoke the
> (postfix) MTA -- which will handle TLS just fine. [and avoids the
> issue of trying to configure a different mailer.] E.g.,
>
> mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f ...
>
> mail = <user>@localhost = all, !skipped
> operator = <user>@localhost = mount
>
> which is the default Bacula configuration and what I use on my
> centos box.
>
>
> - Richard
>
>
>
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