On 2007-01-05 11:41:47 -0500, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-01 at 17:25 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > > 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). > > > > Right. But the application (cron in this case) doesn't care. > > Well, cron may not "care" but if you replace /usr/sbin/sendmail on a > Debian system running exim4 and then turn exim4 off you won't see any > mail from cron.
Yes, and if there's a misconfigured firewall between the system running
cron and the system where I want to read the mail I won't see any mail
from cron, either. There's all sorts of stupid mistakes a sysadmin can
make.
This thread is rapidly becoming ridiculous.
hp
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