On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:43, Philip Rieger wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using gentoo rc3 with vcron and ssmtp. On the boot-console I > regularly get the message > > sendmail: cannot open mail:25 > > In /root/dead.letter I see the line > > /bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found > > I havn't changed anything in the ssmtp configuration. On my gentoo box > at home everything works fine with the default settings. Both machines > don't have a simple hostname (no FQDN). > > The problem was discussed in gentoo forums, but the only solution > proposed was to emerge procmail or another MTU. The setting of MAILTO="" > doesn't have any effect on vcron. Is it possible to solve the problem > without installing a MTU? How do I set up ssmtp correctly? Help would be > appreciated. >
You will need to set the mailhub configuration parameter in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf . The reason you get mails is probably because of a typo in a cron command (from dead.letter). root is not a command ever so probably there is a typo. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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