The problem isn't really sendmail, I bet it's ssmtp that you've got installed. cron is trying to email you about something, and ssmtp's sendmail executable tries to forward it to the server "mail" (the default).
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:34:41AM -0500, Andrey Goder wrote: > Actually, I haven't installed sendmail, it seems to be included by default. > Since I have no need of it, I've just moved the file somewhere else. I hope > that will stop the messages. > > On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:08 am, Ing. Bernardo Lopez wrote: > > If you are not setup'ing a server try postfix instead of sendmail.. this > > is setup by default and works as a charm. > > > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 09:30, Andrey Goder wrote: > > > I keep getting this error message printed to my console, constantly at > > > regular intervals: > > > /usr/sbin/sendmail: can't open the smtp port (25) on mail. > > > > > > I have no idea what process is doing it, and it is fairly annoying, so > > > I'd like to get rid of it. Does anyone know what might be the problem? > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Tyler Trafford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
