From: "David M. Fellows" <dmf@fellowsandcarr.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,
Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracaveman@protonmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] arpwatch changed syntax?
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:17:05 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23540.1593645425@owl.pooh.corner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HRJY_qceNCSwljShQEe8AqdgYASvZ05dTroC8TpZ9MdyhFdcMVFCiZr2C9VQfDveEm5YCyYhsRn4UwSyMRmPhI-5Y8q04lO9utuV1lCnJaw=@protonmail.com>
>hi.
>
>
>background: -----------
>
>previously, i used to run it by this:
>
> > arpwatch -i enp7s0 -m caveman@domain.com -s /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
>but now, after some update, apparently this doesn't work any more.
>
>what seems to have changed is:
>
> * "-m" is replaced by "-w" or "-W". * "-s" doesn't specify sendmail
> path, but is rather only a flag to suppress "reports sent by email".
>
>if i update the command into:
>
> > arpwatch -i enp7s0 -w caveman@domain.com
No answers to your questions below, but you could try
PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH arpwatch -i enp7s0 -w caveman@domain.com
and see if that solves your problem.
DaveF
>
>then, it runs normally, but, it fails to send emails, with this error:
>
> > execl: sendmail: No such file or directory
>
>`whereis sendmail`:
>
> > sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib64/sendmail
>/usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.bz2
>
>
>questions: ----------
>
>Q1: what happened that caused this syntax change? e.g. is it an update
>from upstream? or is it a totally new app written by other devs? or am i
>hallucinating (pretty sure it used to work tho)?
>
>Q2: is there any better tool to monitor arps and to email me when
>interesting things happen?
>
>thanks a lot for your time.
>
>rgrds, cm.
>
>
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2020-07-01 16:38 [gentoo-user] arpwatch changed syntax? Caveman Al Toraboran
2020-07-01 23:17 ` David M. Fellows [this message]
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