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Crontab and email and hostname

Coolmar — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:51:23 GMT

Hi,

We recently moved a server over to new hardware. Everything is fine but we are noticing something strange. Whenever a cron job runs that emails the output...it has the name of the old server. I even ran a job from the cron to test it by sending myself an email and put mailx -s "Test from `hostname`" email@domain and the hostname was resolved correctly but the email still had the old server name in the "from" field in my inbox. So where does cron get the "send from" name from?

Thanks,
S

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

hpuxrox — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:55:42 GMT

Check your DM line in your sendmail config and verify you are not masquerading

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

john korterman — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:55:43 GMT

Hi,

probably from the user's description field in /etc/passwd

regards,
John K.

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:55:59 GMT

Hi:

Assuming that 'hostname' and/or 'uname' report the server name correctly, then look in '/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' for masquerading. See the 'DM' macro.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

Rob Leadbeater — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:57:40 GMT

Hi,

It might be picking it up from the description field in /etc/passwd

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Rob

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

Coolmar — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:59:17 GMT

uname and hostname report it correctly and the DM macro in sendmail.cf is blank....anything else I can check?

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

hpuxrox — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:03:36 GMT

What does /etc/hosts have? What output does nslookup give when you lookup by ip address?

Re: Crontab and email and hostname

Coolmar — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:06:15 GMT

/etc/passwd was right. Thanks!