Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 10:13:15 -0600 Charles Curley
 wrote:
> Package: amanda-common
> Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails
> complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as
> user backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you
> never log onto the user backup long enough to have the shell check
> for mail, or otherwise check /var/mail, you never learn of those
> emails.
> 
> Proposed solution: add an entry "backup: root" to /etc/aliases and run
> newaliases at installation time (assuming both are present).
> 
> I see this in Squeeze (amanda 1:2.6.1p2-3), but I believe it also
> applies to Wheezy (1:3.3.1-4)
> 

I am still seeing this in Bookworm, amanda-server 1:3.5.1-11+deb12u1,
amd64.

Proposed fix:

if [ -e /etc/aliases ]; then
if ! grep backup /etc/aliases > /dev/null ; then
echo "backup: root" >> /etc/aliases
newaliases
fi
fi


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Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:47:09 +0100 Jose M Calhariz
 wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what is your local mail server?  exim4, postfix?
> 
>  Jose Calhariz

Postfix. But the default on Debian is exim.

Sorry to take so long to answer this.


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Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

[Jose M Calhariz]

Hi,

what is your local mail server?  exim4, postfix?

 Jose Calhariz

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Bug#709639: backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

[Charles Curley]

Package: amanda-common
Version: 1:2.6.1p2-3
Severity: normal

I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails
complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as user
backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you never log onto the
user backup long enough to have the shell check for mail, or otherwise check
/var/mail, you never learn of those emails.

Proposed solution: add an entry backup: root to /etc/aliases and run
newaliases at installation time (assuming both are present).

I see this in Squeeze (amanda 1:2.6.1p2-3), but I believe it also applies to
Wheezy (1:3.3.1-4)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages amanda-common depends on:
ii  adduser3.112+nmu2add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.36.1  Debian configuration management sy
ii  heirloom-mailx [ma 12.4-2feature-rich BSD mail(1)
ii  libc6  2.11.3-4  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.24.2-1  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libncurses55.7+20100313-5shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6   6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii  perl [perl5]   5.10.1-17squeeze6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  tar1.23-3GNU version of the tar archiving u
ii  update-inetd   4.38+nmu1+squeeze1inetd configuration file updater
ii  xinetd [inet-super 1:2.3.14-7replacement for inetd with many en

amanda-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages amanda-common suggests:
ii  amanda-client1:2.6.1p2-3 Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/amandahosts [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/amandahosts'
/etc/xinetd.d/amanda changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded


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