Package: at
Version: 3.1.10.2
'at' now has a hard dependency on 'exim4|mail-transport-agent', which is not
necessary for the functioning of 'at'.
As in the case of butterflies and earthquakes, this can have fallout... the
situation having been discovered thusly: during a dist-upgrade, 'at' forced
installation of 'exim4-base', which in-turn started running on port
0.0.0.0:25 automatically. Following a later watchdog-effected reboot, the
newly installed exim4 on the vserver host "stole" port 25 from all of the
vserver instances, thereby rejecting mail for multiple virtual machines.
The only immediate "clean" solution was removing both the 'at' and
'exim4-base' packages from the vserver host; which has broken the ability to
use 'at' for batches/delayed execution (such as backup runs).
Ideally 'at' should only Suggests: the installation of a MTA.
For reference, Ubuntu currently ship:
Version: 3.1.10.2ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-14)
Suggests: postfix | mail-transport-agent
-Paul
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