[CentOS] Cron marks mailto value as UNSAFE
Bob Hoffman
bob at bobhoffman.com
Mon Mar 12 21:28:18 UTC 2012
On Mar 12, 2012, at 12:03 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>/ CentOS-6.2
/>/
/>/ We moved a cron job from a CentOS-5.7 host to a CentOS-6.2
/>/ host. The MAILTO variable is set tosupport at harte-lyne.ca <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>
/>/ in both instances. On the CentOS-6 host instead of
/>/ receiving the mail with the output we see this in
/>/ /var/log/cron instead:
/>/
/>/ Mar 12 14:49:01 inet09 CROND[6639]: (cron theheart) UNSAFE
/>/ (support at harte-lyne.ca <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> )
/>/
/>/ The CentOS-5 host uses Sendmail as the MTA, the CentOS-6
/>/ uses Postfix. We can send mail tosupport at harte-lyne.ca <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>
/>/ from the command line on both hosts.
/>/
/>/ The permissions of the files in /var/spool/cron are:
/>/ # ll /var/spool/cron
/>/ total 12
/>/ -rw-------. 1 root root 34 Mar 9 16:41 root
/>/ -rw-------. 1 root root 4245 Mar 12 14:53 theheart
/>/
/>/ Selinux is set to Permissive (for the time being):
/>/
/>/ # sestatus
/>/ SELinux status: enabled
/>/ SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
/>/ Current mode: permissive
/>/ Mode from config file: permissive
/>/ Policy version: 24
/>/ Policy from config file: targeted
/>/
/>/ What is causing cron to complain. What is unsafe and how
/>/ do I rectify this?
/----
Not sure if you are just trying to use root or using an alias, but I found several
instances in the manual that said I MUST send root mail to an alias when using certian
aspects of postifx/procmail, etc... something to do with the delivery.
Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I would try adding
root:<some other user> in the /etc/aliases file
then run 'newaliases'
then try something.
hope this helps.
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