On 26 October 2012 13:03, Steven Haigh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I've noticed a trend to get some logs from yum updates that happen > automatically that don't display. Looking at the message source, I see:
Something in the mail system is encoding this as base64 but not putting in the mime headers to tell you that.. I don't think that this is done via cron or yum so I would check to see how the postfix or some option in between http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/dotnet/tools/base64decode/ will show you the unencoded message. > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > Delivered-To: [email protected] > Received: from xenhost.lan.crc.id.au (unknown > [IPv6:2002:cb38:f71b:1:52e5:49ff:fe4d:4af6]) > by mail.crc.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9566D9E > for <[email protected]>; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:12:57 +1100 (EST) > Received: by xenhost.lan.crc.id.au (Postfix) > id CC9A412A; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:12:56 +1100 (EST) > Delivered-To: [email protected] > Received: by xenhost.lan.crc.id.au (Postfix, from userid 0) > id BE3B614D; Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:12:56 +1100 (EST) > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:12:56 +1100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: YUM:xenhost.lan.crc.id.au:2012-10-27 > User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: application/octet-stream > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Message-Id: <[email protected]> > From: [email protected] (root) > > IC0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tCiBZVU0gLSBzZWN1cml0eQogLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t > LS0tLS0KCj09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 > PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09CiBQYWNrYWdlICAgICAgICAgICAg > ICAgQXJjaCAgICAgICAgICBWZXJzaW9uICAgICAgICAgICAgUmVwb3NpdG9yeSAgICAgICAg > IFNpemUKPT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 > PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT0KVXBkYXRpbmc6CiB4ZW4gICAgICAg > ICAgICAgICAgICAgeDg2XzY0ICAgICAgICA0LjIuMC00LmVsNiAgICAgICAga2VybmVsLXhl > biAgICAgICAgMS4wIE0KIHhlbi1kb2MgICAgICAgICAgICAgICB4ODZfNjQgICAgICAgIDQu > Mi4wLTQuZWw2ICAgICAgICBrZXJuZWwteGVuICAgICAgICA5ODIgawogeGVuLWh5cGVydmlz > b3IgICAgICAgIHg4Nl82NCAgICAgICAgNC4yLjAtNC5lbDYgICAgICAgIGtlcm5lbC14ZW4g > ICAgICAgIDQuMyBNCiB4ZW4tbGlicyAgICAgICAgICAgICAgeDg2XzY0ICAgICAgICA0LjIu > MC00LmVsNiAgICAgICAga2VybmVsLXhlbiAgICAgICAgMzQ0IGsKIHhlbi1saWNlbnNlcyAg > ICAgICAgICB4ODZfNjQgICAgICAgIDQuMi4wLTQuZWw2ICAgICAgICBrZXJuZWwteGVuICAg > ICAgICAgNDUgawogeGVuLXJ1bnRpbWUgICAgICAgICAgIHg4Nl82NCAgICAgICAgNC4yLjAt > NC5lbDYgICAgICAgIGtlcm5lbC14ZW4gICAgICAgIDUuNyBNCgpUcmFuc2FjdGlvbiBTdW1t > YXJ5Cj09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09 > PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09PT09ClVwZ3JhZGUgICAgICAgNiBQYWNrYWdl > KHMpCgpUb3RhbCBkb3dubG9hZCBzaXplOiAxMiBNClN0b3BwaW5nIHhlbmNvbnNvbGVkIGRh > ZW1vbjogWyAgT0sgIF0NClN0YXJ0aW5nIHhlbmNvbnNvbGVkIGRhZW1vbjogWyAgT0sgIF0N > ClN0b3BwaW5nIHhlbmQgZGFlbW9uOiBbICBPSyAgXQ0KU3RhcnRpbmcgeGVuZCBkYWVtb246 > IFsgIE9LICBdDQoKVXBkYXRlZDoKICB4ZW4ueDg2XzY0IDA6NC4yLjAtNC5lbDYgICAgICAg > ICAgICAgICAgIHhlbi1kb2MueDg2XzY0IDA6NC4yLjAtNC5lbDYgICAgICAgICAKICB4ZW4t > aHlwZXJ2aXNvci54ODZfNjQgMDo0LjIuMC00LmVsNiAgICAgIHhlbi1saWJzLng4Nl82NCAw > OjQuMi4wLTQuZWw2ICAgICAgICAKICB4ZW4tbGljZW5zZXMueDg2XzY0IDA6NC4yLjAtNC5l > bDYgICAgICAgIHhlbi1ydW50aW1lLng4Nl82NCAwOjQuMi4wLTQuZWw2ICAgICAKCgo= > > The message that is in my cron folder shows as blank. While I'm not an > expert in email formatting, is it possible the encoding is incorrect causing > it not to display properly? This one isn't really my field of expertise... > > -- > Steven Haigh > > Email: [email protected] > Web: http://www.crc.id.au > Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897 > Fax: (03) 8338 0299 > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd
