Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

Am 15. November 2020 01:03:05 MEZ schrieb Marc Shapiro via Dng : > I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring > an MTA. > > I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I would > like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed.  'msmtp' is

Re: [DNG] Ancient releases

Hendrik: ... > Is there a line for sources that will access an archived Debian release? I'm > interested in running some software that was dropped from Debian about a > decade ago. I still have a bootable partition with that ancient release > lying round somewhere. https://www.debian.org/dist

Re: [DNG] Ancient releases

> Hendrik: > ... > > Is there a line for sources that will access an archived Debian release? > > I'm > > interested in running some software that was dropped from Debian about a > > decade ago. I still have a bootable partition with that ancient release > > lying round somewhere. > > https:

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 9:20 PM Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:13:15 -0600 > o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gastón via Dng > > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I want to upgr

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with > configuring an MTA. > > I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I > would > like to receive an e-mail when the job is completed. I have added a

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On 11/14/20 6:29 PM, Gastón via Dng wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: Hello, I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I need to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade. Is this likely to go smoothly? If there are any problems I wou

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:13:15 -0600 o1bigtenor via Dng wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gastón via Dng > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I > > > need to do is ch

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:36:36 -0700 Fred wrote: > Hello, > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I > need to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade. > > > Is this likely to go smoothly? If there are any problems I would > probably not have Internet to as

Re: [DNG] packages held back due to conflict with libsystemd0

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 06:51:07 -0500, Hendrik wrote in message <20201108115107.bvcwzgsfasqvz...@topoi.pooq.com>: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 05:48:49AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch via Dng wrote: > > Hi Arnt! > > > > On Saturday, 7 November 2020 21:56:38 -03 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:29:06 -0300, Gastón wrote in message <20201115012856.2w2ojom7elryj...@devuan.devuan.com.ar>: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I > > need to do is change the sources li

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 01:45:20 -0800 Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote Am 15. November 2020 01:03:05 MEZ schrieb Marc Shapiro via Dng : > I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring > an MTA. > > I have a few lines in root's crontab

Re: [DNG] packages held back due to conflict with libsystemd0

On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 02:17:24PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 06:51:07 -0500, Hendrik wrote in message > <20201108115107.bvcwzgsfasqvz...@topoi.pooq.com>: > > > On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 05:48:49AM -0300, Eike Lantzsch via Dng wrote: > > > Hi Arnt! > > > > > > On Saturday, 7 N

Re: [DNG] Jessie to Ascii upgrade

On 11/15/20 5:28 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 22:29:06 -0300, Gastón wrote in message <20201115012856.2w2ojom7elryj...@devuan.devuan.com.ar>: On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: Hello, I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I need to d

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On 2020-11-15 09:02, kdibble wrote: > msmtp works well for these type of things. > > Beware though as the package includes an apparmor profile which can > cause problems if you don't use the defaults. _And_ unless you turn off apparmor. Sorry if this is obvious. But I concur with the recemmenda

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On 11/15/20 5:00 AM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: I use Thunderbird for e-mail, so I have never bothered with configuring an MTA. I have a few lines in root's crontab to do periodic backups and I would like to receive an e-mail whe

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

Quoting Florian Zieboll via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > 'msmtp' is a lightweight and simple option for sending messages to > remote smtp servers from shell scripts. with a variable (e.g. > "$mailcmd") it can be used as drop in replacement for mailx. Generically, things like msmtp tend to be calle

[DNG] (SOLVED _ I hope) Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

On 11/15/20 6:40 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/15/20 5:00 AM, Marjorie Roome via Dng wrote: If this is a cron job running on your local machine then rather than having to fully comnfigure your MTA to send acceptable emails to gmail (i.e. static ip, spf, dkim, etcetera) it would be simpler to en