Thanks Carl

 

Yep I understand all this, and the below is when incorporated into one of the exit notify scripts, however I am not utiliding any of these.

 

If you turn on the SERVER to send mail on all clients, somewhere in the NBU binaries mails are being sent.

 

Have just learned that from the library /opt/openv/lib/libVbp.so the “mail” program is being used so will endeavour to check the servers mail.cr to possibly masquerade.

 

Dave

 

 

Here is what I did. I added the sendmail call in my script and have the script "su" to the allowed user before calling sendmail.
Something like this:
su $EMAILUSER -c "cat $RPT_DESTN_DIR/some_report.txt|/usr/lib/sendmail -f $SENDER_EMAIL -t $RECIPIENT_LIST  "

Notice that sendmail had the -f parameter, this changed the from and $SENDER_EMAIL could be your david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com
$EMAILUSER is the non-root user that has a valid account on the system.  $RECIPIENT_LIST is the e-mail addresses to send the message to.

Hope this helps



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Carl Stehman
IT Distributed Services Team
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
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"Clooney, David" <david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com> 09/28/2007 10:52 AM

To ckstehman AT pepco DOT com cc veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu, veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Subject RE: [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify

Thanks everyone
 
Just did a bit of digging around as I am quite aware of the exit notify scripts and have now totally bypassed them i.e
 
I have removed all notify scripts from the bin directory.
 
Settings on the CLIENT
 
USEMAIL = david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com
SERVER_SENDS_MAIL = YES
 
Upon the completion of a backup I still get a confirmation email from root AT masterserver DOT com.
 
I am convinced this is incorporated into a binary somewhere and as NBU runs as root when the mail is sent it picks up the user, this I need to change somehow
 
Am I going mad ?
 
Dave
 

 

From: ckstehman AT pepco DOT com [mailto:ckstehman AT pepco DOT com]
Sent: 28 September 2007 14:41
To: Clooney, David
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify
 

We set up a special account that is allowed to send e-mail from the server being backed up, and "su"-ed to that user before calling sendmail.

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Carl Stehman
IT Distributed Services Team
Pepco Holdings, Inc.
202-331-6619
Pager 301-765-2703
ckstehman AT pepco DOT com

"Clooney, David" <david.clooney AT bankofamerica DOT com> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 09/28/2007 04:28 AM

To veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu cc   Subject [Veritas-bu] Backup exit notify

All
 
Solaris 8
 
Does anyone know how to change the senders address when backup notify is executed on the master server?
 
i.e. at the moment we get root AT masterserver DOT com
 
Need to change it to adhere to policy
 
 
Thanks
 
Dave
 

 

 

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