Gary Aitken: > Hi all, > > I'm new to postfix and trying to administer a debian google-compute > box, also new to me (coming from fbsd). So lots of opportunities > for learning... > > I modified /etc/crontable to fire off some backup stuff (a shell > script that does a "gcloud compute disks snapshot ...". Cron logs > attempting to start the script, then logs: > cron[1214]: sendmail: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = > postfix/sendmail[8628]: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group =
Please DO follow a proper Postfix installation procedure. - Either install from package. - Or install from source code. This is not something that you should be fixing by hand. Wietse