[rancid] - problem sending mail and matching configuration

[Paolo De Michele]

hi heasley,


On 03/10/2012 05:34 PM, heasley wrote:
> Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 02:59:41PM +0100, Paolo De Michele:
>> hi heasley,
>>
>> thank you for your reply
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/09/2012 06:01 PM, heasley wrote:
>>>>> using rancid 2.3.8 with os ubuntu 11.04 server.
>>>>> I did the various configurations and are quite happy with it.
>>>>> My problem is that when software rancid makes a matching configuration creates a new file.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I would do is this:
>>>>>     - create a file when the new configuration is detected ( OK )
>>>>>     - send me an email with the changes detected in the new configuration
>>>>>
>>>>> I failed in any way using /etc/aliases and sendmail to send a mail to an address of a royal domain.
>>>>> can you help me somehow?
>>> diffs are sent to rancid-<rancid group name>.  you should test sending email
>>> to that alias.  administrative messages are send to rancid-admin-<rancid group
>>> name>; so test that alias too.
>>>
>>> If you can not get these aliases to work, refer to the mail lists or forums
>>> that are for support of whatever you are using for you MTA, whether that is
>>> sendmail or postfix.
>>>
>>> if that does work; then look in the rancid logs files for errors.
>> You can have a config example file/etc/aliases?
> that is specific to your MTA and what you want to do.  look for an aliases(5)
> manpage.
I solved the problem with the provision of mail. I have configured
postfix as an agent and now are sent correctly
how do I send mails when rancid find differences in configurations?

thanks in advance
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