On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:59:50PM +0000, Cornelia Menzel wrote > Hello everybody! > > I am trying to emerge slrn, but I get this error message: > > --snip-- > checking for sendmail .... no > configure: error: > I can't find a sendmail executable, slrn requires a mail transport > agent for sending e-mail. Please make sure sendmail is in your $PATH > or use the --with-mta option to point configure to a different MTA > (giving the full pathname and all needed command line arguments). > --snap--
Quick and dirty solution... rm /usr/sbin/sendmail touch /usr/sbin/sendmail chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sendmail chattr -i /usr/sbin/sendmail I use mutt as my mailer, and have it pointed to ssmtp. I don't need no steekin sendmail. I came up with the above remedy after an update created a symlink to ssmtp from /usr/sbin/sendmail. Chatty cron jobs send their output to root. Given that ssmtp forwards everything to my ISP's MTA (as "smart-host"), my cron jobs were sending email to root at my ISP (not appreciated). In addition to the above fix, I also diverted all email not from my regular userID to a dead-end non-functional, non-existant, mta (mail.bad.example.com). -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
