Hi all, I'm new to postfix and trying to administer a debian google-compute box, also new to me (coming from fbsd). So lots of opportunities for learning...
I modified /etc/crontable to fire off some backup stuff (a shell script that does a "gcloud compute disks snapshot ...". Cron logs attempting to start the script, then logs: cron[1214]: sendmail: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = postfix/sendmail[8628]: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = As I did not set this system up, it's not clear to me what has been properly installed and what came as a result of other stuff. Initially, I was getting a "/etc/postfix/main.cf: No such file or directory" error. I copied main.cf.proto to main.cf without change, as it seemed to be ok as is. It appears postfix was installed as a result of a mysql installation: aptitude why postfix: i automysqlbackup Depends bsd-mailx | mailx i A bsd-mailx Depends default-mta | mail-transport-agent i A postfix Provides mail-transport-agent but the setup not completed? This machine is not intended to serve as a mail server; I only need it to post mail appropriately. I modified /etc/aliases to forward root, then tried sudo newaliases but I get the same error: newaliases: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = Any helpful clues would be much appreciated. Thanks, Gary
