On Wednesday 02 April 2003 19:49, Philip Rieger wrote:
>
> thanks for the quick reply. I could still need some help. What is the
> right mailhub parameter. By default /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf sets
> mailhub=mail. When mail should be delivered locally, is it just the
> hostname (in my case mailhub=howard)? This actually changes the error
> message to: 'sendmail: cannot open howard:25'.
>

the mailbost must be the host that is responsible in your local network for 
sending emails. mailhost.company.com is a possible name for this

> 'root' is no command, that's clear. Is there a way to find out, which
> script tries to run 'root'. In my crontab there are these (default) lines.
>

Those lines run the scripts that are in the 
/etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} directories. Do a grep on root in 
those directories to give you a hint which script it might be.

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