Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Amaya
Alison Chaiken wrote: > I used to get a sort of daily highlights report on Fedora that was a > summary of higher criticality messages from /var/log/messages and > rkhunter.The messages were great, as they weren't the entire > logfiles, but just the parts I possibly needed to look at. I'd >

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Luk Claes
Hi Alison On 03/07/2012 06:11 PM, Alison Chaiken wrote: > The biggest one is that I can't figure out how to get logrotate to use > the postfix smtp daemon I installed to send mail to root.(I have > no desire to send mail from these systems for any purpose except to > root for system administr

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread kristen
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:11 -0800, Alison Chaiken wrote: > Greetings all, in January I switched my main development desktop > system and a new laptop to Debian-KDE after being a Fedora user since > its inception.I'm pretty happy with the change but have a couple > of remaining problems. > > Th

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Mika Pflüger
Hi Alison, Am Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:56:15 -0800 schrieb Alison Chaiken : > Amaya notes: > >You do not need to change the sendmail reference in /etc/ in debian > >there is a system in place so that invoking sendmail works no matter > >what smpt server you are using (exim, postfix, qmail..) > > Maybe

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
Amaya notes: >You do not need to change the sendmail reference in /etc/ in debian >there is a system in place so that invoking sendmail works no matter >what smpt server you are using (exim, postfix, qmail..) Maybe the problem is not with SMTP then, hmm. Amaya helpfully asks: > * Do you want logr

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
I asked a question about my inability to get my systems to send me nightly reports from logrotate, rkhunter, etc. Amaya responds: Is it a logrotate issue or a whole cron issue? I suspect that the problem with logrotate, but if I could figure out where the problem is, I could fix it!I'm not s

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Amaya
Alison Chaiken wrote: > Greetings all, in January I switched my main development desktop > system and a new laptop to Debian-KDE after being a Fedora user since > its inception.I'm pretty happy with the change but have a couple > of remaining problems. Congrats! > The programs run nightly by

two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
Greetings all, in January I switched my main development desktop system and a new laptop to Debian-KDE after being a Fedora user since its inception.I'm pretty happy with the change but have a couple of remaining problems. The biggest one is that I can't figure out how to get logrotate to use