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Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address |
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you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all. |
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On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote |
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>> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-) |
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> Sorry about that. Here are the details... |
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> [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE="-build -doc -epydoc |
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> (-selinux)" |
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> LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB |
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> Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt... |
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> d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb |
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> -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm |
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> -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB |
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> It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries |
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> manually, but very unlikely. |
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> Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on |
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> creating symlinks called "sendmail"? My most embarressing moment as a |
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> linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly |
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> cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1". The |
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> garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink |
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> to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email |
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> out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my |
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> ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. <G> |
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> I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs, |
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> I set root=<myaccount> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff |
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> getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP. |
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> I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered |
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> /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each |
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> case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a |
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> "touch .keep" inside the directory. |
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> -- |
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> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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Kyle |
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