Package: samhain Version: 2.8.3a-1 Severity: normal the wheezy version (very quietly) fails to send any mail reports with the default config, i.e. SetMailAddress=root@localhost and no SetMailRelay. the squeeze version worked fine with this combo of settings.
here's the relevant output from samhain -t check -i -p debug -m crit -l none: ... MARK : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (samhain.c, 2080, 0) msg=<File check completed.>, time=<3>, kBps=<96006.504000> DEBUG : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (sh_mail.c, 1653, 4) msg=<The requested name is valid but does not have an IP address: >, subroutine=<res_query> DEBUG : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (sh_mail.c, 1895, 0) msg=<No MX record for domain localhost>, subroutine=<get_mx> ERROR : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (sh_mail.c, 1930, 0) msg=<Unknown host localhost>, subroutine=<return_mx> ERROR : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (sh_mail.c, 1084, 0) msg=<The specified host is unknown: localhost>, subroutine=<return_mx>, service=<email>, host=<localhost> ERROR : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (sh_mail.c, 725, 0) msg=<Service failure>, service=<mail>, obj=<root@localhost> ALERT : [2013-05-25T18:15:01+1000] (samhain.c, 781, 0) msg=<EXIT>, program=<Samhain>, status=<None> the machine in question has a perfectly working /etc/hosts entry for localhost, and the faulty behaviour is the same if one uses SetMailAddress=root@127.0.0.1. the problem shows up in samhain's logs with severity debug and error, which is quite low considering that samhain assigns lots of events the severities crit or alert and that the logs are usually quite large; that syslogseverity defaults to alert makes it even harder to spot the trouble. as a workaround i used: SetMailAddress=root, SetMailRelay=localhost regards az -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
