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I posted this on the ubuntu forums. I cant tell if its a upstart issue
or a way something is implemented. If it is a upstart issue, i want to
help yall fix it.


I am getting a weird issue.

I am running 10.04 of Ubuntu. I have Postfix mail server installed and
set to send alerts.

When I have the following script in the in a /etc/init/airvideo.conf
file as described here http://wiki.birth-online.de/know-how/hardware
/apple-iphone/airvideo-server-linux.


[code]start on runlevel [2345]
stop on shutdown
respawn

exec sudo -H -n -u johnnytk36 /usr/bin/java -jar /home/johnnytk36/AVS/AirVideoServerLinux.jar /home/johnnytk36/AVS/avs.properties[/code]When i boot up the Air Video server starts perfectly and i have no issues with it. What im having a issue with is that IF i have the airvideo.conf file in the etc/init/ folder like it needs to be to boot i receive a email from my Postfix server with the subject.
[code]*** SECURITY information for Server ***[/code]& a body of [code]Server : Aug 30 18:30:30 : root :  ***
[/code]The *** in the body is usually some random strange combo of a few characters.

I think it has to do with permissions, i just don't know where the issue
is. I think the email is trying to tell me that something tried to guess
my root pass.


I know this said it was for Karmic Linux and it I'm using Lucid. That might be the issue, i don't know.

UPDATE: After spending 6 hours debugging this all i could, i cant figure
it out. I have narrowed it down to the fact that we are using the sudo
command while already in root. I think that triggers the email to be
sent. It seems to be bypassing any setting i can think of to stop this.
I have tried to edit the sudoers file to not allow email sent, but no
matter what i did. It didn't work.

This is what i added to the sudoers file:

[CODE]Defaults    mail_always=off
Defaults    mail_badpass=off
Defaults    mail_no_user=off
Defaults    mail_no_host=off
Defaults    mail_no_perms=off[/CODE]Here is the auth log output:

[CODE]Aug 31 02:05:21 Server sudo:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ;
USER=johnnytk36 ; COMMAND=/bin/bash -c /usr/bin/java
-Djava.awt.headless=true -jar /opt/AVS/AirVideoServerLinux.jar
/opt/AVS/avs.properties[/CODE]Could if be the fact that the sudeurs file
is only readable by root?

Any help is appreciated.

I've given up for now and I'm just going to do a filter in Gmail to
delete the email as soon as it comes in. This might be a true bug, but i
dont care anymore. If anyone else using 10.04 sees this, let me know, so
i know i'm not alone.

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/sudoers.man.html

** Affects: null
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid

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