Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:15:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Ian Barnes <ian@cerebellum.za.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron Mailing Message-ID: <20040513111545.GB39379@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <DGEOIPPIAJBPINGMKMGKKEBKFJAA.ian@cerebellum.za.net> References: <DGEOIPPIAJBPINGMKMGKKEBKFJAA.ian@cerebellum.za.net>
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:51:34PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I am trying to find out if something is possible. On our servers we would
> like all mail from cron not to come from root@boxname but rather from say
> ian@boxname.
I assume you still want the jobs to be run by root though, otherwise
you could just use the 'ian' account's crontab file.
=20
> Is this possible? Am i making sense :P ??
Sure. 'root' always used to be special cased so that emails from
there don't go through address rewriting. But since sendmail-8.10
that's no longer the case. Just use the normal genericstable
mechanisms to rewrite the sender address. Read through the bits of
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README that deal with genericstable first, but
essentially what you need is:
i) Make sure your /etc/mail/`hostname`.mc file contains:
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
if not, add it to the .mc file and rebuild sendmail.cf and
restart sendmail in the usual way:
# cd /etc/mail
# vi `hostname`.mc
# make all install restart-mta
ii) Edit the /etc/mail/genericstable file to set up the e-mail
address mappings you need. That will be, minimally:
root ian
and then process that into the .db hash format sendmail will
read:
# make
iii) That's all you need to do. Send some e-mails as root to test.
Nb. this rewrites all e-mail from root@box.name, not just the stuff
emitted by cron. If you want to do that, it's going to be much harder
to achieve.
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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