Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
Hello, folks -- Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. No dead.letter to be found either. Not having found any examples of folks using ssmtp to mail cron errors, does anyone have an experience to share, or advice (short of installing an MTA)? Or, if this is totally possible, can I get help to eliminate possible config errors by some method? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
I also have mailx installed. Try that. On 1/22/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
Oh, forgot to mention: and it works beautifully. ;) On 1/22/08, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have mailx installed. Try that. On 1/22/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #10: Insufficient money spent in hardware. -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. No fail. Worked like a charm... I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e At the top, is MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] My user belongs to cron group: groups wheel cron users mykhyggz Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron 1508 * * *echo hello world should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or so I believe, but didn't. What else can I check? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups, just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to crontab -e. I edit my cron table using: crontab -e (no extra parameters needed). Check it out by crontab -l. For root, I do the same. Regards, Saffi On 1/22/08, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. No fail. Worked like a charm... I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e At the top, is MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] My user belongs to cron group: groups wheel cron users mykhyggz Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron 1508 * * *echo hello world should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or so I believe, but didn't. What else can I check? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
I'm using ssmtp to send mail on several boxes. One of the boxes is running a real MTA and acts as the hub for the other boxes. Check /var/log/mail*. I'm assuming you set mailhub=foo in your ssmtp.conf, which means you're using the box foo to relay your mail. It's possible that the hub is refusing to send the mail. That would look something like: Jan 17 15:44:59 starscream postfix/smtp[8356]: 24E2D4AC9: to= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=:25, delay=15, delays=0.1/0.01/15/0.1, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host xxx said: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying denied (in reply to RCPT TO command)) At any rate, if there's an error anywhere along the way, it should show up in one of the mail logs. On Jan 22, 2008 11:19 AM, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try echo -e To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test | /usr/sbin/ssmtp youraddress If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub setting. No fail. Worked like a charm... I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e At the top, is MAILTO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] My user belongs to cron group: groups wheel cron users mykhyggz Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron 1508 * * *echo hello world should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or so I believe, but didn't. What else can I check? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22. Jan, Ricardo Saffi Marques spammed my inbox with I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups, just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to crontab -e. I edit my cron table using: crontab -e (no extra parameters needed). Check it out by crontab -l. For root, I do the same. Regards, Saffi On 1/22/08, Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 + Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world. I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO=. But it doesn't. snip I am also getting mails from cron with ssmtp. However, I had to twiddle my mail server setup: Since ssmtp does not specify a complete From: (or envelope from) adress, the server refused the mail. I needed to allow messages without a from: adress to receive any mail from cron. Regards Jan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHlmIbMmLQdC6jvocRAnjPAKCdx9DNojusXXRtL2+EFfHsDpJfDgCcCn4I ZhZho5DxnGju1nRxy7k6TDk= =bzp3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:37:32 +0100
Jan Seeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and
getting emails? The test is simple, just echo hello world.
I expect this to come as an email to the address I put in
MAILTO=. But it doesn't.
snip
I am also getting mails from cron with ssmtp. However, I had to
twiddle my mail server setup: Since ssmtp does not specify a complete
From: (or envelope from) adress, the server refused the mail. I
needed to allow messages without a from: adress to receive any mail
from cron. Regards Jan
Well, to f/u with all of this.
I re-emerged vixie-cron and cronbase too...
* Portage doesn't enforce proper permissions on already existing
* directories (bug 141619). Appropriate permissions are now being set
* on //etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly},
* //var/spool/cron/ and //var/spool/cron/lastrun/
* (see bug 182998)
IDK if that mattered. Again, I have no problem sending mail from a
shell. Looking at world, ssmtp isn't listed. I installed that too, for
kicks. But, I've been able to send and receive mail, so that shouldn't
matter...
In fact, I believe now what I do have is a problem getting cron to do
it's thing. At this point, I'm baffled. I started finding this in the
logs, however, so something changed:
Jan 22 16:04:01 devserv cron[22211]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the
specified session
Jan 22 16:05:01 devserv cron[22215]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the
specified session
Jan 22 16:06:01 devserv cron[22216]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the
specified session
Jan 22 16:07:01 devserv cron[22217]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the
specified session
Well, I guess now I know it's trying...
I'll remove 'pam' from my use flags for this? Re-emerge vixie-cron...
... oh, hello, now it's working??? WTF
Important: After upgrading PAM, from any version to any version, you
have to restart those services that are using it to avoid internal ABI
mismatches. This includes sshd, vixie-cron (and probably any other cron
service), mail servers, and in general almost every service that
accepts users.
Oh, REALLY? So there's a connection... hmm. I recall an upgrade howto
and check
qfile -o /etc/pam.d/*
/etc/pam.d/cron
... but it seems fine... Referring to a working config, I uncommented
the following line:
session optionalpam_limits.so
Re-emerged with pam useflag enabled again. Joy.
Thanks for all of your input, everyone... I'll be damned if I can
figure out what exactly fixed it, though.
Cheers,
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