Bugs item #889859, was opened at 2004-02-03 12:50 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by donginn You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109368&aid=889859&group_id=9368
Category: Packages Group: 4.0 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Postponed Priority: 9 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. :- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: DongInn Kim (donginn) Date: 2004-11-05 16:14 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1097490 Not all mailing services (postfix, sendmail, and exim) for oscar are completely configured for disable-services. But configuration of postfix is completely done on RH9 and FC2 and only postfix takes care of the above bug now. In a near future, sendmail and exim will be completely configured like postfix and all MTAs (Mail Transfer Agent) will be configured on all distros that OSCAR 4.0 supports as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
