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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:15:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with
/etc/portage/package.use
From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com>
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On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:55:42AM +0100, Mick wrote
>
>> To complete the diagnosis we may need the version of your portage? ;-)
>
> Sorry about that. Here are the details...
>
> [d530][root][~] emerge -pv portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE="-build -doc -epydoc
> (-selinux)"
> LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB
>
> Since it only shows up with mutt so far, maybe it's actually mutt...
>
> d530 mutt # emerge -pv mutt
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.20-r4 USE="pop smime smtp -berkdb
> -crypt -debug -doc -gdbm -gnutls -gpg -idn -imap -mbox -nls -nntp -qdbm
> -sasl -sidebar -ssl -vanilla" 0 kB
>
> It is remotely possible that I did make the package.use entries
> manually, but very unlikely.
>
> Speaking of mutt, is there a way to turn off its insistence on
> creating symlinks called "sendmail"? My most embarressing moment as a
> linux user came several years ago when I first created an hourly
> cronjob. I wasn't aware of the need for ending it with "2>&1". The
> garbage output went to root via "sendmail", which was actually a symlink
> to mutt. mutt is a deliberately dumb mailer that simply pushes email
> out the door to my ISP's MTA. So the hourly garbage went to root at my
> ISP. They sent me a polite email asking me to kindly stop. <G>
>
> I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs,
> I set root=<myaccount> in /etc/ssmtp/ssmpt.conf, so that any stuff
> getting through would go to my account at my ISP, not to root at my ISP.
> I also went around stomping on the symlinks. So far, I've discovered
> /usr/bin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail. In each
> case, I deleted the symlink, created a directory by that name, and did a
> "touch .keep" inside the directory.
>
> --
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>
>
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Kyle