[wplug] cyrus-imapd / postfix / ???

[Jonathan Billings]

On 8/19/05, ian <ian at zybro.com> wrote:
>  The reason I want to stop the emails is that I believe sendmail does not
> even exist on my system...
>  
>  It seems each time I install postfix it removes sendmail. This is why I am
> confused that the beautiful beast, CRON DAEMON, is sending me a message
> about not finding sendmail - it's not installed...

It's possible that there are still parts of sendmail installed, or
possibly postfix is running some process that is running as some sort
of sendmail emulation (since many things assume that there is a
'sendmail' binary).  There's nothing wrong with Cron.  Cron is doing
it's job and the script that it is running is generating an error. 
Cron is your friend.  It's telling you that it really tried to run
this program that it's been configured to run, and it's getting an
error.  You want to help Cron.  Cron wants you to help it.

If I recall correctly, this is the original email from Cron:
--------------------------
Subject: Cron <smmsp at debianserver> test -x
/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail && /usr/share/sendmail/sendmail cron-msp
From: Cron Daemon <root at zybro.com>
To: root at zybro.com

/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail: line 820: /usr/sbin/sendmail-msp: No
such file or directory
---------------------------

I notice that whoever wrote that script put in a very simple way to
make it go away.  Simply delete or remove the executable the file
/usr/share/sendmail/sendmail and the "test -x" will fail.  Cron will
no longer run the script again.

However, how did it get in this situation?  You should at least make
sure mail gets delivered after making this change.  I'd also try using
the debian tools to determine what package that file comes from.  I'm
not a Debian expert, so maybe someone else can help with that?

>  You probably all hate me now and I will never be comfortable at WPLUG again
> but at least you will have someone to make fun of for a couple hours.

Pah, don't worry about that.  You haven't done anything wrong or
stupid.  It's clear that you got everything working to the point where
mail works.  I remember going through a similar trial when I started
getting in to mail systems.  Heck, I'm still baffled by the behavior
of sendmail even to this day.


-- 
  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com