From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsPRp-0005vN-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:16:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DDC76E07AA; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1872E07AA for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so5310173and.1 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=jpFBZQiKZwP4xkzZFrpZRIqCijgARSTgB/KwhicgDps=; b=U/4v1OqFE/DLWqQRG4GVIdIMW5ICttmtBEapfFLs9I/YRuhT+pwYaYHV3bBMXi7O73 WLaTzIvv42r2ZD+4DZLsVGm73DE5OT/J61/n2PDMMLosG+ajvc/8J8SDNpNc4EldE1QA erL4TU4JxY7eUgVucu8edttsLCKPmMKBJW+c8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=jRozl/00OYg2VTUY5yoyVwjURA/HtYIvSjWgbcfFzbD5ahnBog6QAMDqlwnRCuvPT4 yL7yXtSWYQAm82TD/Mrf3KdYhcnlYjsavAQklbRUmin0LBrA836U6KbXt2hSP6OKwmHD XZnsvEFQWzz1CGBv9vgzqcddvFf5hYm6ItYgE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.211.28 with SMTP id n28mr3730946anq.52.1254179759513; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090927130206.GA5344@waltdnes.org> References: <20090927012338.GA12732@waltdnes.org> <200909270855.57149.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20090927130206.GA5344@waltdnes.org> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:15:59 -0700 Message-ID: <854dca5c0909281615p669a60a9h6b7c0487fc05b477@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage monkey directly with /etc/portage/package.use From: Kyle Bader To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 230a1858-f1b2-4707-94d4-d317b56ff177 X-Archives-Hash: ac290bd88ff2afa200147929653f6555 Use a MAILTO= in your crontab and notifications will go to any address you want, leave MAILTO blank and it won't mail at all. On 9/27/09, Walter Dnes 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. > > I took a couple of steps then. Besides adding "2>&1" to my cronjobs, > I set root= 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 > > -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle