nullmailer is equivalent to a submit-only mail server;
you can run a unix system without mail;
but it is very handy at times.
Most of my servers send me security reports and exception reports for
the services they are running.
On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Allen Brown wrote:
Allen Brown wrote:
But I would prefer to know
what it was complaining about.
You can look in /var/spool/nullmailer/queue for the actual messages
to
see what is carping.
That helps! Cron is having trouble. I've set up a personal cron
to run every minute. It runs a script which decides which other
things need to be run. It in turn depends on /etc/profile being
right, and I haven't fixed that from the default Ubuntu provides.
I will fix that now. Thank you.
Also look in /etc/nullmailer/remotes to see where it wants to send
mail.
Chances are the host is either wrong or non-existent.
-ajb
It says "mail." Seems pretty useless. And there is no man page
or info page for nullmailer. I think software without a man page
should be banned from the distribution. But maybe that's just me.
Scanning the net it sounds like nullmailer is for systems which
always can talk to a smart mail server. I don't that applies here.
OTOH I'm not sure I want the system to be doing anything with mail.
So perhaps the answer is simply to remove nullmailer from the system.
Of course that would mean I wouldn't get debug info from cron.
--
Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. --- Goldwyn
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