Upstart and Sudo - Email for root

[Johnnytk36]

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

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Transferring this to Ubuntu sudo

[Jarda Benkovsky (edheldil001)]

We have the same or a very similar issue on one Lucid server here. Each time I start sudo it immediately sends email looking like below. The binary garbage is different in each email sent. I have no mail_always set in /etc/sudoers nor /etc/sudoers.d/*

Version: 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.2 (the same with ubuntu5.1)

To: <email address hidden>
From: <email address hidden>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Subject: *** SECURITY information for server ***
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:12:42 +0200 (CEST)

server : Sep 24 13:12:42 : myusername : °Éč

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

You should not use 'sudo' to change uids in upstart jobs, as this opens a pam session. You should use the 'start-stop-daemon' command instead.