On Monday 22 September 2008, 06:26, Philip Webb wrote: > After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered > that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for 7 days . > I tracked the problem down to a change in /etc/group > when I updated Ssmtp 2.61-r2 -> 2.62-r3 : > there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for '<user>'. > There was 1 line in the file in /var/log/emerge-logs/ , > which didn't explicitly warn that sysadmin action was required, > but nothing anywhere else AFAICS, incl in the 'man' file. > > Has anyone else got caught by this ?
Yes, I saw that. I had to add the users who use ssmtp to the ssmtp group (or, alternatively, chmod 755 the binary). There is a bug on b.g.o.: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237932 which links to the interesting one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187841
