Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Fraser
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 fetc

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-24 Thread Pat Kerwan
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

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-24 Thread Smokey
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 m

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Fraser
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-23 Thread Pat Kerwan
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 fetchm

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Fraser
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

Re: [gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Fraser
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.

[gentoo-user] vcron & sendmail

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Fraser
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