On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote:
> Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it
> fails, and outputs "sendmail: unable to open port 25" onto the console. Since one of
> the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a
> pain in the rear end.
>
> How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me?
>
I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in
daemon mode instead of using a cron job.
You can either set up daemon mode with the -d <interval> option on the
command line:
$ fetchmail -d 300 ...
or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line:
set daemon 300
- PK
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