Re: [Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Anna wrote: > Thanks, Martin! I was hoping it would be OK. Sometimes I never know what's > going to break when I start messing with things. :-) > This hacky, crappy, inelegant script sends the recipient a simple email with I sometimes use a similarly inelegant one called biabam. And I've spotted another one in the fedora repo (can't recall the name now) that is perl based. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6
Thanks, Martin! I was hoping it would be OK. Sometimes I never know what's going to break when I start messing with things. I uninstalled postfix, installed and configured ssmtp for gmail, edited the mail group for root (requires reboot), installed mutt with no further configuration (the simple mail command doesn't handle attachments), and downloaded and installed the sarg rpm (it's not in the repos). This hacky, crappy, inelegant script sends the recipient a simple email with the daily squid access report. I tested it in crontab just to make sure. The files are in zip archive for the Windows folks. They do have to unzip it and manage to open the index.html file. But if folks want to see where the kids are going on the internetz, this seems like an easy way to provide that data right in their inboxes. #!/bin/bash recipient=exam...@example.com today='date +%0e-%m-%Y'; mkdir /root/squid sarg -l /var/log/squid/access.log -o /root/squid -z -d $today zip -r internetlog.zip squid/ echo "This is the Internet activity log for $HOSTNAME" |mutt -a internetlog.zip -s "$HOSTNAME Internet Log" $recipient #Cleanup rm -rf /root/squid exit Since I know this is a crappy script, you won't hurt my feelings if you point out how awful it is. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Anna wrote: > > On a test XS 0.6 box, I installed ssmtp and set up Gmail as the smtp > server > > (which is dead simple, btw). In order to send mail, I had to uninstall > > postfix, otherwise I got this error message: > > > > postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or > > directory > > You can have them both installed, (Fedora/RedHat are very good at > avoiding rpm conflicts) but I am sure that if you have them both > *running* with default configs they'll conflict over port 25 and > various other things. > > So yes, uninstallign postfix is recommended. Probably disabling it is > enough (chkconfig --level 345 postfix off). > > > Is it going to break anything having uninstalled postfix or will I > otherwise > > run into unexpected issues? Sometimes the XS is kinda weird about stuff > > like that. > > We're weird, true. But removing postfix is ok. > > cheers, > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Anna wrote: > On a test XS 0.6 box, I installed ssmtp and set up Gmail as the smtp server > (which is dead simple, btw). In order to send mail, I had to uninstall > postfix, otherwise I got this error message: > > postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or > directory You can have them both installed, (Fedora/RedHat are very good at avoiding rpm conflicts) but I am sure that if you have them both *running* with default configs they'll conflict over port 25 and various other things. So yes, uninstallign postfix is recommended. Probably disabling it is enough (chkconfig --level 345 postfix off). > Is it going to break anything having uninstalled postfix or will I otherwise > run into unexpected issues? Sometimes the XS is kinda weird about stuff > like that. We're weird, true. But removing postfix is ok. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] Postfix vs ssmtp conflict on XS 0.6
On a test XS 0.6 box, I installed ssmtp and set up Gmail as the smtp server (which is dead simple, btw). In order to send mail, I had to uninstall postfix, otherwise I got this error message: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory Is it going to break anything having uninstalled postfix or will I otherwise run into unexpected issues? Sometimes the XS is kinda weird about stuff like that. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
