On 31.05.20 10:40, Gary Aitken wrote:
Subject: setup issue -- debian /ubuntu 16.04.1 "bad string length 0 < 1:
setgid_group ="
16.04 is ubuntu version
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 =
you should try to run:
dpkg --configure -a
to configure all packages that aren't configured yet.
however, so far this problem looks more like ubuntu than postfix problem.
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