[hobbit] problem apt

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Fri, February 26, 2010 03:39, doctor at makelofine.org wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:37:52 +0100, mickael <debian at robertain.com> wrote:
>> Larry Barber wrote:
>>> In order to monitor /var/log/messages the hobbit user must be able to
>>> read the file, which by default is only readable by root. You either
>>> add hobbit to the root group, or what I usually do is make
>>> /var/log/messages use the hobbit group id.
>>>
>>> You also need to install the postfixadm package, see the apt-get man
>>> page for details. This package is necessary to run the postfix mail
>>> server.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Larry Barber
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:39 PM, mickael <debian at robertain.com
>>> <mailto:debian at robertain.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi ,
>>>     I'm new user hobbit and i must migrate our solution monitoring
>>>     nagios to hobbit . I test hobbit from VM with a client and a
>>>     server. I have some problems : first : i obtain this message :
>>>     Packages not installed from apt repositories:
>>>      postfixadmin (2.3)
>>>
>>>     How to edit hobbit no longer have this error ?
>>>     Second problem i obtain this error : No entries in
> /var/log/messages
>>>     Full log /var/log/messages
>>>     Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied
>>>
>>>     What user hobbit use for open a file on the system ? Thank you for
>>>     your help
>>>     Best Regards , Mickael
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>> Ok i put hobbit in the root group .
>> For postfixadm , it already work correctly , i don't need install the
>> packages with apt. I just want , don't have the error :
>> Packages not installed from apt repositories:
>>  postfixadmin (2.3)
>>
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>
> This error is due to the fact that the source of this package is not
> referenced in your APT servers. I had to comment the line 149 in
> bb-check-apt.pl to disable this alert. I don't mind about package sources,
> because I'm the only that can install packages.
>
> About your persimssion issue, I disagree with the answer you get, adding
> xymon, that has automated scripts (like plugins) is not very secure I
> think. So I use ACL  (on ext3 FS) to get xymon the right to read some
> files, as /var/log/messages.
>

>From a 11/2009 post by Christoph Berg, it appears that what may also work
to avoid the alert is to put the package on "hold":
echo postfixadmin hold | dpkg --set-selections