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progster
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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:36 pm Post subject: never installed sendmail, yet it is present? |
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Well first of all even though portage says it's not installed, sendmail + man page are present. Second something tries mailing with it every 30 seconds or so, verbosely I get "Sendmail : Cannot open mail: 25" on my shell.
Is there any way I can see which daemon is triggering this? Also how come portage doesn't know it's installed? 
There's nothing special in my crontab and "ps aux" returns the following:
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USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.1 1352 484 ? S Jun30 0:06 init
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [migration_CPU0]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [keventd]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:02 [kapmd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Jun30 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kswapd]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kscand]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [bdflush]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kupdated]
root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [khubd]
root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kreiserfsd]
root 4200 0.0 0.2 1808 968 ? S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev
root 21751 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kjournald]
root 24309 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kjournald]
root 2304 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jun30 0:00 [kjournald]
root 19076 0.0 0.1 1400 540 ? S Jun30 0:00 metalog [MASTER]
root 4094 0.0 0.1 1376 452 ? S Jun30 0:00 metalog [KERNEL]
root 23437 0.0 0.1 1364 436 ? S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd eth0
root 26049 0.0 0.1 1492 628 ? S Jun30 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 20051 0.0 0.2 2708 1004 ? S Jun30 0:00 esd
root 31450 0.0 0.3 2284 1240 ? S Jun30 0:00 [login]
root 15747 0.0 0.1 1344 452 vc/2 S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
root 29128 0.0 0.1 1344 452 vc/3 S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
root 20144 0.0 0.1 1344 452 vc/4 S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
root 26615 0.0 0.1 1344 452 vc/5 S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
root 7435 0.0 0.1 1344 452 vc/6 S Jun30 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
progster 10936 0.0 0.3 4584 1444 vc/1 S Jun30 0:00 -bash
progster 10522 0.0 0.2 4320 1072 vc/1 S Jun30 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
progster 20153 0.0 0.1 2324 632 vc/1 S Jun30 0:00 xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- -deferglyphs 16
root 14038 0.6 10.2 304592 39220 ? SL Jun30 1:19 [X]
progster 20311 0.0 0.2 4316 1056 vc/1 S Jun30 0:00 sh /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
progster 28210 0.0 0.7 7464 2708 vc/1 S Jun30 0:01 /usr/bin/fluxbox
progster 23413 0.3 1.6 13428 6484 vc/1 S Jun30 0:45 gkrellm2
progster 22104 0.0 1.6 13428 6484 vc/1 S Jun30 0:00 gkrellm2
progster 11917 0.0 0.2 4316 1048 ? S Jun30 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/phoenix
progster 4863 0.0 0.2 4356 1104 ? S Jun30 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/phoenix/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 18272 1.2 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 2:23 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 11387 0.0 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 0:00 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 722 0.0 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 0:00 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 12793 0.0 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 0:00 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 7045 0.0 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 0:02 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 30612 0.0 7.8 47908 30212 ? S Jun30 0:00 /usr/lib/phoenix/phoenix-bin
progster 26144 0.6 0.7 8224 2704 ? S 01:35 0:00 [xterm]
progster 1352 0.1 0.3 4600 1456 pts/0 S 01:35 0:00 bash
progster 2635 0.0 0.2 2664 804 pts/0 R 01:35 0:00 ps aux
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tphamm
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have postfix or some other mailer installed? Some mailers provide their own "sendmail" replacement so that other mail programs expecting to see sendmail will find it.
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progster
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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apparently it's linked to ssmtp, how can I check which daemons / programs are depending on that?
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kashani
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:17 am Post subject: sendmail |
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ssmtp will have installed /usr/sbin/sendmail which it sort of a generic sendmail binary for getting mail off the box and not actually Sendmail itself. The cron daemon you installed requires some sort of mailer which is how it got there and is also the most likely suspect for trying to sendmail every 30 seconds.
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Chris W
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:00 am Post subject: |
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might help, but I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe metalog is trying to mail something?
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progster
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 11:09 am Post subject: |
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bash-2.05b$ qpkg -q ssmtp
net-mail/ssmtp-2.48 *
DEPENDED ON BY:
net-mail/ssmtp-2.48
DEPENDED ON BY:
net-mail/ssmtp-2.60.3
DEPENDED ON BY:
net-mail/ssmtp-2.38.14-r1
DEPENDED ON BY:
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Can I unmerge it without running into problems later?
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Chris W
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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No, probably not. Several items, cron being one example, assume that there's a sendmail available. The sendmail in ssmtp is a local-delivery-only stub designed to meet the minimum requirement in these areas.
Is there a mail client in Phoenix? Perhaps a queued mail it cannot send?
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Vxster
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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I have a similar thing on my console too. I am assuming it is from crons. I get dead.letter files as the outputs that it cannot mail. I am just leaving it for the moment  |
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progster
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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same here, I also have a dead.letter in my home dir (didn't notice it until you mentioned it  ) |
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doctorgonzo
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Me too.
Also, in regular intervals, "sendmail: Cannot open mail: 25" pops up on my console. |
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