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

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