I think they may be disallowing sendmail to comply with a security policy. Using amreport to generate the report and leave it in a file is an acceptable alternative. We do this in addition to sending mail.
Dan Lorenzini Greenwich Capital Markets [EMAIL PROTECTED] 600 Steamboat Road 203-625-6088 Greenwich, CT 06830 -------- Your message dated: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:44:11 EST -------- > Bob, > > I'd never heard that - nor has it been a problem at my site where we > do run sendmail - clients (non-hub) on all but one amanda server. > > We have also run an amanda server on our mailhub with no difficulty. > > The one exception I meantioned above is for a firewall system backing > up the clients (itself plus one in dmz) but not transmitting any mail > by choice of our security admin who didn't want any mail leaving the dmz. > ie: That is not because of amanda issues. > > Is this just something you where told or have you run into a difficulty > and if so, what ? > > > > > I've been told that I can not run sendmail or any mail system on the Sun > > Solaris server that I run the Amanda server on. Does anyone know how I > > can get the reports that I have normally sent to root's e-mail system > > some other way? Is their an option to getting the e-mails like in a > > report file? I know that I can put another e-mail address in the > > amanda.conf file. But, without sendmail running on my solaris system I > > have no way of sending it to another e-mail system. I think the e-mail > > will just hang in the mqueue folder until I delete it. Thanks. > > Bob... > > > > -- > > ************************************************************************** > > Bob Zahn UNIX Systems Adminstrator Oklahoma City Community College > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 405.682.1611.7619 7777 S. May Avenue > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oklahoma City, OK 73159 > > ************************************************************************** > > > > >
