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 1MVW0u-00021j-FL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9295CE05A0; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F84EE05A0 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C34666EF2 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.031 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.031 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.432, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MdDhm3CTU3yP for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519BD66F87 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MVW0j-0003Wi-84 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:25 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-193-95.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.193.95]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:25 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-193-95.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:37:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Not getting cron emais that should go to root user Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:38:52 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1248717490.14851.16.camel@camille.espersunited.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-193-95.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090727 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <1248717490.14851.16.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 889683fd-9bc6-4156-a711-e2c5262f61cd X-Archives-Hash: da61edaff959e63a02d97660d53fe9f8 On 07/27/2009 10:58 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on > my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: > > 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output > to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09 failed user root parsing pr 2002; Thilo > Bangert > > I don't know why it's trying to use sendmail; I use exim... My setup is very basic compared to yours, but on this machine I have /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp Is your sendmail a symlink also?