On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:34:09AM +0200, [email protected] wrote > > What reasons disable fcron to send mail to me or root?
By convention, it seems that all MTAs have symlinks at /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. Programs that automatically send email, expect to find "sendmail" symlinks. Do you have those symlinks from msmtp? My most embarressing linux moment was when ssmtp sent output from verbose cron jobs to root (at me). My ssmtp was configured to simply re-route everything to my ISP's MTA. The net result was that the output went to root@my_ISP "They were not amused". That was when I learned about setting the destination for all userids < 10 to myself. I also ran a script designed to break the symlinks and prevent portage from making sendmail symlinks... rm -r /usr/bin/sendmail rm -r /usr/lib/sendmail rm -r /usr/sbin/sendmail mkdir /usr/bin/sendmail touch /usr/bin/sendmail/.keep mkdir /usr/lib/sendmail touch /usr/lib/sendmail/.keep mkdir /usr/sbin/sendmail touch /usr/sbin/sendmail/.keep That worked great for a few years. Portage output an error message about being unable to symlink, but continued. Then portage changed the failure mode to shut down portage when it was unable to create symlinks... AAARRRGGGHHH. Now when that happens, I remove the "sendmail" directories, run emerge to build ssmtp, and then run the script to break the symlinks. I know that it's redundant, after setting destination for uid < 10, but "once burned, twice shy". -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
