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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 (-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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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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