From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 10:28:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51866CAA.2070801@libertytrek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51859DE0.1020408@asyr.hopto.org>
On 2013-05-04 7:46 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> on 05/05/2013 01:15 AM Tanstaafl wrote the following:
>> Oh... ok, well, now I'm just wondering why it decided to install it all
>> of a sudden...
> mail-client/mailx : The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail
> via shell scripts
>
> mail-mta/ssmtp: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
>
> They are totally different and not alternate of each other.
Well, I'm using msmtp not ssmtp, but yeah, I was having tunnel vision.
On 2013-05-05 5:45 AM, Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de> wrote:
> /usr/portage/app-forensics/rkhunter/ChangeLog shows two recent
> dependency fixes, which each reference a bug report. In this case
> it's bug #398123, according to which rkhunter uses the "mail" command
> in its daily cron job. Obviously, without a /bin/mail provider
> installed (what virtual/mailx is for), the mails will never get sent.
> Instead, you (hopefully) get error messages from cron.
Ah, ok, makes sense now. I had installed rkhunter a week or two ago but
had commented the cron job when working on something else, but never
re-enabled it, and hadn't noticed I wasn't getting those emails (to
remind me to go back and re-enable it).
I was getting other system emails (ie, portage), so didn't realize I
needed something else (a client) for these kinds of emails.
Anyway, sorry for the noise...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-05 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-04 16:52 [gentoo-user] alternate mta's Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 19:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-04 20:17 ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 22:01 ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-04 22:15 ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 23:46 ` Thanasis
2013-05-05 14:28 ` Tanstaafl [this message]
2013-05-05 9:45 ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-05 9:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-05 14:35 ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-05 15:46 ` Todd Goodman
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