Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:58:59 +0100 From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@designaproduct.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail not working? Message-ID: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz>
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Hi All,
Got a problem with FreeBSD 6.2 (upgraded from 6.1): cron is not sending
out e-mails. However, it is running:
messias# ps ax | grep cron
988 ?? Ss 0:01.86 /usr/sbin/cron -s
But, if I write this into the crontab of root:
SHELL=/bin/csh
* * * * * echo "Test"
then I do not get any e-mail. This machine has an ssh tunnel that
forwards TCP/25 port to another machine. Postfix is installed on this
machine, but it is not enabled. I believe that sendmail should work for
local addresses, even if the SMTP server is not listening locally. At
least, sendmail(8) tells this:
<man 8 sendmail>
With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to an
end-of-file
or a line consisting only of a single dot and sends a copy of
the mes-
sage found there to all of the addresses listed. It
determines the
network(s) to use based on the syntax and contents of the addresses.
Local addresses are looked up in a file and aliased
appropriately.
</man 8 sendmail>
Here is a quick test that I did:
messias# sendmail gandalf
Test2
.
messias# mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/gandalf": 1 message
> 1 MAILER-DAEMON@messia Fri Nov 10 12:27 13/664 "DON'T DELETE
THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA"
&
I have many scripts that I would like to run from cron. Probably they
throw errors, but I have no clue what are those errors, because I'm not
getting mails from cron. What should I do?
Another question: is it possible to setup cron so that it uses a
different SMTP server for sending e-mails? If so, can I specify this for
one user only? Well, the obvious solution would be to create a special
user and create a .forward file, right?
Thanks in advance,
Laszlo
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