[email protected] Tue, 11 May 2010, Muskoka Auto Parts Limited wrote:
> On 10-05-11 3:06 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> rkhunter installed with exim4. I would like to switch it to sendmail but >> can't see how. Can I get some help? > > Assuming you are running a Debian variant from your mail headers, I'm > guessing that rkhunter specified an MTA required, and the default MTA > for your distro happens to be exim. > > To prove that - > > ==> aptitude show rkhunter > Package: rkhunter > State: installed > Depends: binutils, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, exim4 | postfix | > sendmail | mail-transport-agent, file, net-tools, perl > > See the depends line? > > Changing to sendmail is easy - > > ==> sudo aptitude --simulate install sendmail > The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: > m4 procmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda > The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > postfix > The following NEW packages will be installed: > m4 procmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda > The following packages will be REMOVED: > postfix > 0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 1894kB of archives. After unpacking 3146kB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] > > In my case I'm running postfix rather than exim, but the results are the > same. Installing one will automatically remove the other because they > are marked as conflicting with each other. Let me give you a little background to clarify what I'm trying to do. Sorry if I wasn't clear before. One of the distros I'm running is Debian Lenny. I had problems getting exim4 to deliver mail to remote servers so, after fighting that for weeks, I purged exim4, going so far as running "locate exim4" and deleting everything on that *long* list. There are no other MTAs on the system. Then I installed msmtp and configured it. Now I can send mail to remote servers (ie my isp's smtp server) but rkhunter and logwatch no longer send daily reports to my inbox as they did with exim4. What I need is to persuade rkhunter to use msmtp. Does the "mail-transport-agent" in the Depends line indicate the program will work with any MTA? -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer" [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rkhunter-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkhunter-users
