Bash script problem [OT] - Solved

[Daniel J Walsh]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Arthur Dent wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:58:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> Arthur Dent wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:27:04AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>> setroubleshoot can be setup on a headless box to send email.  And there
>>>> is an interface (named pipe) to audit system where you can receive AVC
>>>> messages as they happen.  Just look at the setroubleshoot code since it
>>>> is using this.
>>> Ooooo. That sounds interesting. I'm all for not re-inventing the wheel. Thing
>>> is, I looked at man sealert and I couldn't see how to do this. I am not much
>>> of a hacker, so looking at the code would probably not help me too much.
>>>
>>> Is there a configuration setting I can set somewhere?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>  
>>> fedora-selinux-list mailing list
>>> fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com
>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
>>  vi /etc/setroubleshoot/setroubleshoot.cfg
>>
>> And search for email.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies for slow response. Thanks ever so much for this. Just what I
> was looking for!
> 
> Just one small thing...
> 
> When I tried this, editing /etc/setroubleshoot/setroubleshoot.cfg
> and creating a file /var/lib/setroubleshoot/email_alert_recipients it
> didn't work. I looked at this wiki entry
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/SELinux/SETroubleShoot/UserFAQ#email-alerts
> and it said essentially exactly the same thing. It also said that that I
> could use the sealert GUI to set the mailing settings, so I SSH'd into
> my serving using a forwarded X server and tried that. It worked!
> 
> The strange thing is that the wiki says that the GUI method simply
> modifies the same file (which makes sense), but I used a different email
> address and the old email address (which doesn't work) is still in that file with no sign of
> the new one (which works!).
> 
> Ho hum... I suppose I goofed somewhere along the line. I'll look into it
> with a little more care when I get the chance. In the meantime, the
> important thing is it works!
> 
> Thanks again, your help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Mark
> 

John could you help Mark out?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkfegDMACgkQrlYvE4MpobP3aQCeJSywvkeDfiFOZ+8xR4LF90sc
dtEAoMiuOasaxk/e1oIQNa5yELlhU6Ja
=jShQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----