Security information for hostname on Trusty

[Andrew Langhorn]

Hi Colin,

Thanks for that; I'd already checked that we have /etc/hosts entries for
the FQDN, and its shortened variety (so, foo.bar.com, and foo,
respectively). Forgot to mention that.

Andrew

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 August 2016 at 22:12, Andrew Langhorn <andrew at ajlanghorn.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I run Ubuntu 14.04 with Postfix installed which uses Amazon SES as a mail
> > relay. I'm trying to work out why, when a fresh Amazon EC2 instance is
> > provisioned, I get mail with the subject "*** Security information for
> > <hostname> ***".
> >
> > I'd like to know:
> >
> > - what causes it,
> > - what use it is to me, and
> > - how to stop it in the most elegant and efficient manner
> >
> > A quick Google suggests it might be an outdated version of the Sudo
> package,
> > but I'm running the latest available from the Canonical-supported
> mirrors in
> > the eu-west-1 region.
>
> Googling for
> "Security information for"
> led me to this
> http://superuser.com/questions/284820/what-generates-this-message-
> security-information-for-hostname
> which could be relevant
>
> Colin
>
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