Logcheck devel - May 2006 - Bug#365565: logcheck: improve description of FQDN option

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.43a
Severity: wishlist

The conf file currently says
# Should the hostname of the generated mails be fully qualified?
FQDN=1

I suggest rewording that to
# Should the hostname in the subject of the generated mails be fully qualified?
FQDN=1

The current wording led me to believe that the sender, and perhaps
recipient (if otherwise unqualified) of the emails generated by
logcheck would be fully qualified.  This is not the case, and from
inspecting the code this setting seems to affect only the text of
subject lines and some debug lines.

Probably the usage note
 -H HOST      = use this hostname for the mail
should be
 -H HOST      = use this hostname in the mail's subject line
with similar change to the man page.

An alternate approach would be to change the actual behavior, which
currently is provided by the "mail" program for the sender and
recipient addresses.  I think mail uses the contents of /etc/mailname
(or at least exim will).  My /etc/mailname does not have the hostname
--short in it.  Since the recipient domain can be set explicitly, and
since the sender domain can be inferred from the subject line, there
seems little value in changing the actual behavior.  The wisdom of
overriding the standard domain handling is also debatable in this
context.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.85                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-94               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.72                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.15.7                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4            4.61-1                  metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-hea 4.61-1                  exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  grep             2.5.1.ds2-4             GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.43a                 database of system log rules for t
ii  logtail          1.2.43a                 Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

logcheck recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:

package logcheck
tags 365565 pending
thanks

On 1 May 2006, at 05:48, Ross Boylan wrote:
> The conf file currently says
> # Should the hostname of the generated mails be fully qualified?
> FQDN=1
>
> I suggest rewording that to
> # Should the hostname in the subject of the generated mails be  
> fully qualified?
> FQDN=1
>
> The current wording led me to believe that the sender, and perhaps
> recipient (if otherwise unqualified) of the emails generated by
> logcheck would be fully qualified.  This is not the case, and from
> inspecting the code this setting seems to affect only the text of
> subject lines and some debug lines.
>
> Probably the usage note
>  -H HOST      = use this hostname for the mail
> should be
>  -H HOST      = use this hostname in the mail's subject line
> with similar change to the man page.
The usage summary now reads:

-H HOST      = use this hostname in the subject of any generated mail

The explanation of the FQDN option now reads:

# Should the hostname in the subject of generated mails be fully  
qualified?

The manpage for logcheck now reads:

"-H Use this hostname string in the subject of logcheck mail."

Thanks for your bug report,

-j
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