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FS#4961 - crond does not send mail

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 04 July 2006, 22:15 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 09 September 2007, 10:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The crond-daemon is not able to send the cron-output via mail because it wants to use /usr/sbin/sendmail. But sendmail (using courier-mta) could be found under: /usr/bin/sendmail
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 09 September 2007, 10:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 16:38 GMT
very similar to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5397
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 17:55 GMT
Which crond daemon are you using? I wasn't aware that dcron sent mail at all...
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 15 April 2007, 10:34 GMT
I was using dcron and yes it is able to send mail. ;-) This bug is quite old and I think this bug is fixed.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Monday, 16 April 2007, 18:14 GMT
Tobias, part of this bug stems from courier's sendmail not being in /usr/sbin like it is with the other MTAs.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Monday, 16 April 2007, 19:10 GMT
... which IIRC is pretty hard to change since courier has a *very* special layout, which first of all is very RH specific and secondly is pretty hard to change. I don't promise anything on this one.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 15:15 GMT
How about just a symlink then? Most perl CGIs, php, etc expect sendmail in /usr/sbin nowadays.

Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 18:34 GMT
I should try that, but I will have to get a closer look the layout in general

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