Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:09:49 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@designaproduct.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail not working? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070314160910.024dc2f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz> References: <45F86213.10604@designaproduct.biz>
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You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your rc.conf
and any variables that might need to be set.
-Derek
At 03:58 PM 3/14/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> 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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