Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:05:47 +0100 From: Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: glarkin@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts Message-ID: <48BBDA9B.7000102@witchspace.com> In-Reply-To: <48B6AE4F.3050903@witchspace.com> References: <48A00C8C.4060105@witchspace.com> <48A05902.8060103@FreeBSD.org> <48B66D15.5080104@witchspace.com> <48B671B4.9070602@infracaninophile.co.uk> <48B6AE4F.3050903@witchspace.com>
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Jonathan Belson wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Yes. root is specifically exempted from all the masquerading stuff. >> There's an EXPOSED_USER macro you can use in $(hostname).mc to control >> that. > > Ah, that explains it. There doesn't seem to be a way to remove exposed > users, but there is a web page explaining how to stop 'root' being added > as a default exposed user: > > http://www.grok.org.uk/docs/smroot.html > > Instead of doing this, I've told periodic.conf to send its output to my > local account on the server, and added a .forward file to pass the > e-mail to my 'real' address. Hopefully this will play nicely with > sendmail's masquerading. Of course it didn't as the e-mail's sender was still 'root' :-S I ended up following the instructions from the web page above, and after initially getting caught out by the difference between 'dnl' and '#' I finally have a configuration that works. Thanks, --Jon
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