On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2008, 06:26, Philip Webb wrote: > > After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered > > that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for 7 days . > > I tracked the problem down to a change in /etc/group > > when I updated Ssmtp 2.61-r2 -> 2.62-r3 : > > there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for '<user>'. > > There was 1 line in the file in /var/log/emerge-logs/ , > > which didn't explicitly warn that sysadmin action was required, > > but nothing anywhere else AFAICS, incl in the 'man' file. > > > > Has anyone else got caught by this ? > > Yes, I saw that. I had to add the users who use ssmtp to the ssmtp group > (or, alternatively, chmod 755 the binary). There is a bug on b.g.o.: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237932 > > which links to the interesting one: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187841 > > I was wondering about this. I ended up making it world executable like you mentioned. The day before I went on vacation the Gentoo box at work stopped regularly e-mailing. What a pain. -- - Mark Shields
