Hi Alison On 03/07/2012 06:11 PM, Alison Chaiken wrote:
> The biggest one is that I can't figure out how to get logrotate to use > the postfix smtp daemon I installed to send mail to root. (I have > no desire to send mail from these systems for any purpose except to > root for system administration.) "mail root" from CLI works, and > some programs (smartd, for example) do send email properly to the root > account. The programs run nightly by cron do not, however. This > is not an aliases problem or a difficulty with postfix configuration > since the CLI invocation works fine. I have RTFM'ed at length but > simply cannot figure out how to get cron's subprocesses to use > postfix. I have changed all invocations of sendmail to postfix in > /etc/*.conf that I can find. Does anyone have any suggestions as to > where to look? logrotate.conf needs to be changed? Can you see the 'CRON...(root)...' message in /var/log/syslog and does something appear in /var/log/mail.log or /var/log/mail.err? Is there output of postqueue -p (a.k.a. are the mails still queued)? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f57db8e.2020...@debian.org
