problem apt

Xymon User in Richmond wrote:

On Fri, February 26, 2010 03:39, user-d54077869176@xymon.invalid wrote:
  

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:37:52 +0100, mickael <user-e9a67911a618@xymon.invalid> 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 <user-e9a67911a618@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-e9a67911a618@xymon.invalid>> 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

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)

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 , it appears that what may also work
to avoid the alert is to put the package on "hold":

Already thank you for your help . i had test this night your solution
for read the log message chmod 644 on the file and it's ok now :) . But
i have always a problem with apt. 


I have the same problems , I tried what you told me "echo postfixadmin hold | dpkg --set-selections" after i check that the parameter is ok with :

$ dpkg --get-selections |grep post

libpostproc51                    install

postfix                        install

postfix-mysql                    install

postfixadmin                    hold  ====> status is hold  

I have always the same problem 

Packages not installed from apt repositories:

   postfixadmin (2.3)

Are you a other idea ?