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On Monday 22 September 2008, 06:26, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> After an urgent inquiry re my health from a friend, I discovered |
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> that e-mails had not been getting out of my machine for 7 days . |
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> I tracked the problem down to a change in /etc/group |
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> when I updated Ssmtp 2.61-r2 -> 2.62-r3 : |
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> there's a new entry 'ssmtp', which needs to be enabled for '<user>'. |
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> There was 1 line in the file in /var/log/emerge-logs/ , |
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> which didn't explicitly warn that sysadmin action was required, |
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> but nothing anywhere else AFAICS, incl in the 'man' file. |
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> Has anyone else got caught by this ? |
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Yes, I saw that. I had to add the users who use ssmtp to the ssmtp group |
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(or, alternatively, chmod 755 the binary). There is a bug on b.g.o.: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237932 |
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which links to the interesting one: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187841 |
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