mail and system-generated events

[Frank Shute]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:37:15PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote:
>
> Hate replying to myself, but I seem to have come up with a workaround.
> I hope it's actually a good fix.
> 
> As part of my efforts earlier (deinstall and reinstall postfix) I also
> searched for and rm'ed all of the sendmail binaries I could find,
> before the reinstall.
> 
> That broke it in a 'better' way, for some value of better:
> 
>     atrun[1032]: exec failed for mail command: No such file or directory
> 
> I went looking at my other FreeBSD boxes, and found this:
> 
>     tophat# ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
>     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  21 Nov 22  2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
> 
> This was missing on my problem system, so I put in the link per the
> above, and all now seems quite happy.
> 
> Someone then pointed me at 'man mailwrapper'.
> 
> Still doesn't tell me how I botched it, but it surely does tell me
> that I fixed it.
> 
> Kurt
> 

As well as mailwrapper(8) you want to have a look at mailer.conf(5)
where there is an example for postfix.

Also read this page:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

-- 

 Frank 


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