Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.43a Severity: wishlist The conf file currently says # Should the hostname of the generated mails be fully qualified? FQDN=1
I suggest rewording that to # Should the hostname in the subject of the generated mails be fully qualified? FQDN=1 The current wording led me to believe that the sender, and perhaps recipient (if otherwise unqualified) of the emails generated by logcheck would be fully qualified. This is not the case, and from inspecting the code this setting seems to affect only the text of subject lines and some debug lines. Probably the usage note -H HOST = use this hostname for the mail should be -H HOST = use this hostname in the mail's subject line with similar change to the man page. An alternate approach would be to change the actual behavior, which currently is provided by the "mail" program for the sender and recipient addresses. I think mail uses the contents of /etc/mailname (or at least exim will). My /etc/mailname does not have the hostname --short in it. Since the recipient domain can be set explicitly, and since the sender domain can be inferred from the subject line, there seems little value in changing the actual behavior. The wisdom of overriding the standard domain handling is also debatable in this context. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages logcheck depends on: ii adduser 3.85 Add and remove users and groups ii cron 3.0pl1-94 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf 1.4.72 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.15.7 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii exim4 4.61-1 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-hea 4.61-1 exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended ii grep 2.5.1.ds2-4 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking ii logcheck-databas 1.2.43a database of system log rules for t ii logtail 1.2.43a Print log file lines that have not ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon logcheck recommends no packages. -- debconf information: logcheck/changes: * logcheck/install-note: _______________________________________________ Logcheck-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/logcheck-devel
