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miqorz
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:25 pm    Post subject: vixie-cron needs ssmtp? Reply with quote

Code:

root@tokyo /home/mike # emerge -uDpvt world

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[nomerge      ] sys-apps/vixie-cron-3.0.1-r4  (-selinux)
[ebuild  N    ]  mail-mta/ssmtp-2.60.9  -ipv6 -mailwrapper -md5sum +ssl 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


Sorry If I'm asking too many questions but I started off using gentoo as test run and itd slowly over-taking my life.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:01 pm    Post subject: Re: vixie-cron needs ssmtp? Reply with quote

miqorz wrote:
itd slowly over-taking my life.


This happens to all of us :) The reason vixie-cron needs ssmtp is so that it can send e-mails to give reports of what's been run and if it was successful. It doesn't need ssmtp specifically but it does need an mta and ssmtp is the default virtual/mta.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, gotcha!

(Also sorry for my bad grammar in that particular post, I had just woke up and ran that command and found it odd it needed something *new*.)
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it have to have an MTA? I've been uninstalling ssmtp on every box I've set up and running vixie-cron just fine. I'm from the "read the logs" school and am moving away from mail based systems as much as possible.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You have to clean the dead letter that shows up in the users home directory when vixie-cron tries to mail you. My question is if can find me for a dead letter why cant it just post me there :wink:
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