#709639 backup: root entry needed in /etc/aliases

Package:
amanda-common
Source:
amanda
Description:
Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Libs)
Submitter:
Charles Curley
Date:
2021-09-07 22:45:14 UTC
Severity:
normal
#709639#5
Date:
2013-05-24 16:13:15 UTC
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To:
I recently discovered by accident that amanda has been sending emails
complaining of a minor problem. Unfortunately, since amanda runs as user
backup, it sends them to the user backup. Currently, if you never log onto the
user backup long enough to have the shell check for mail, or otherwise check
/var/mail, you never learn of those emails.

Proposed solution: add an entry "backup: root" to /etc/aliases and run
newaliases at installation time (assuming both are present).

I see this in Squeeze (amanda 1:2.6.1p2-3), but I believe it also applies to
Wheezy (1:3.3.1-4)
#709639#10
Date:
2014-08-29 03:47:09 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

what is your local mail server?  exim4, postfix?

     Jose Calhariz
#709639#15
Date:
2021-09-07 22:23:38 UTC
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To:
Postfix. But the default on Debian is exim.

Sorry to take so long to answer this.