Bugs item #889859, was opened at 2004-02-03 12:50 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by naughtont You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=889859&group_id=9368
Category: Packages >Group: 4.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) >Assigned to: DongInn Kim (donginn) Summary: disable-services kills mail from nodes Initial Comment: The disable-services package disables the sendmail daemon on the nodes. It also installs a /etc/cron.hourly script that re-tries to send wedged e-mail every hour (in the off chance that mail didn't get sent the first time around). In older versions of RH, this appeared to work fine -- any mail that was sent from the nodes would either be sent right away or would be queued up if there was a failure. In RH9, it looks like the default behavior of sendmail has changed -- all mail becomes a local relay through 127.0.0.1. Hence, all outgoing mail expects to find a server listening on 127.0.0.1:25 (or some other localhost mechanism). Hence, if there's no daemon running, the mail is *dropped* (not queued). This is bad. :-( So any mail originating from OSCAR nodes is currently being dropped. The disable-services package should probably ensure that: 1. a MTA daemon is installed on the nodes (sendmail or otherwise -- I tend to prefer postfix these days, myself... tremendously easier to config than sendmail) 2. the MTA only accepts connections from localhost 3. [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes somewhere reasonable ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This kinda sucks, because the whole point here was that we could *not* run an MTA daemon and save a bit of memory and process overhead. But that may not be realistic anymore. :- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=889859&group_id=9368 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
