On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 15:36 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tho it _should_ mean that cron does not require qmail-smtpd. > With the caveat of the particular OS and flavour of cron.
Cron requires a local delivery agent ... which may send to the SMTP port on a remote host, depending on the implementation (i'm not saying that I've seen this but unless you check the source of every implementation, you can't be sure what is generally true). Vixie cron is configurable and the built-in choices are: /usr/lib/sendmail /bin/mail and one other I'd never seen before. Debian uses /usr/lib/sendmail and seems to require the MTA to support this (the problem is solved differently by the exim4 and qmail packages). Anacron has a hard-coded reference to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Debian can use eithe Anacron or Vixie cron. I believe that RedHat uses anacron. If you believe that RedHat's use is the defacto standard for unix then the original poster would be correct. -- --gh
