Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in daemon mode instead of using a cron job. You can either set up daemon mode with the -d interval option on the command line: $ fetchmail -d 300 ... or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: set daemon 300 - PK -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but... I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m procmail -d %T ' command appended, to deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that? On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in daemon mode instead of using a cron job. You can either set up daemon mode with the -d interval option on the command line: $ fetchmail -d 300 ... or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: set daemon 300 - PK -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
I use (under defaults): mda /path/to/procmail -d %T in my ~home/.fetchmailrc is this what you are looking for? Greg Paul Fraser wrote: I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but... I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m procmail -d %T ' command appended, to deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that? On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in daemon mode instead of using a cron job. You can either set up daemon mode with the -d interval option on the command line: $ fetchmail -d 300 ... or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: set daemon 300 - PK -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:55:54PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but... I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m procmail -d %T ' command appended, to deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that? Just add '-d 300' to your fetchmail command line. I.e. $ fetchmail -d 300 -a -m procmail -d %T (And, as was already mentioned, you can also use the mda option in your fetchmailrc.) - PK On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in daemon mode instead of using a cron job. You can either set up daemon mode with the -d interval option on the command line: $ fetchmail -d 300 ... or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: set daemon 300 - PK -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
Alright, thanks. :) I'll give those a try and let you know how it goes. On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:14:23AM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:55:54PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but... I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m procmail -d %T ' command appended, to deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that? Just add '-d 300' to your fetchmail command line. I.e. $ fetchmail -d 300 -a -m procmail -d %T (And, as was already mentioned, you can also use the mda option in your fetchmailrc.) - PK On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in daemon mode instead of using a cron job. You can either set up daemon mode with the -d interval option on the command line: $ fetchmail -d 300 ... or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line: set daemon 300 - PK -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vcron sendmail
Argh, no I didn't! I added MAILTO= at the top of /etc/crontab, thinking that'd tell it not to mail to anyone - but it hasn't fixed it. So I'm back on the hunt again. If anybody could point out a solution, I'd be damned grateful. Sorry for the multiple emails too. On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:23:12PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Oops, nevermind. I've sorted it out.. I should really learn to read more. :) On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each time it fails, and outputs sendmail: unable to open port 25 onto the console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end. How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me? -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Paul J. Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
