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Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> I recently noticed that Bacula actually produces a traceback
> when it crashes (or at least tries to), which is then mailed
> via bsmtp to the hardcoded address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, with the
> sender address set to the same address.
The hard-coding is a shame, but the rest... read on.
> Unfortunately, on my Bacula director machines that address is
> not a valid, reachable E-mail address. (Which I think is not so
> unusual - if you want to challenge that statement, be my guest.)
It should be very unusual, on correctly configured systems. One of the
first things that you should be doing is re-routing root mail someplace
else, but as far as not having root be a valid address on the same host,
I can't imagine that being a good idea. Plenty of stuff mails root on my
machines, not just Bacula. A lot of information from root's cron output
generally goes there too, among other things. Maybe it's less unusual on
non-UNIX platforms though.
> So neither the mail with the backtrace information itself, nor
> the resulting bounce message ever go anywhere, and the
> information vanishes into nirvana. Which is why I never noticed
> that helpful feature before. (Yes, I read the message "trying to
> produce a backtrace, but as that was the end of it I thought, it
> tried but didn't succeed.)
>
> Isn't there a better way?
The backtrace file is also written somewhere, so it's not EXCLUSIVELY
e-mailed, but I guess the notification is.
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