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The reason I want to stop the emails is that I believe sendmail does
not even exist on my system...<br>
<br>
It seems each time I install postfix it removes sendmail. This is why I
am confused that the beautiful beast, <b><font color="#cc0000">CRON
DAEMON</font></b>, is sending me a message about not finding sendmail -
it's not installed...<br>
<br>
Thank you all for your attention so far and I appreciate your continued
willingness to help. Also, I agree it would be best to actually
discover and resolve the problem behind the emails. <br>
<br>
I know you are all very busy and very stressed by your own lives and
problems. Taking the time to help some meek pathetic stranger you have
never met and will get nothing more than a mere "Thank you!" in return
- How noble! - Perhaps someday I can return the favor.<br>
<br>
I'll do my best to (as briefly as possible) sum up what has happened
below:<br>
<br>
For several months, I have been running a cyrus - postfix email server
from home.<br>
<br>
Recently, a friend of mine joined the server and began using it to
receive email. I noticed that when I sent email to both the friend and
me at the same time, I would get a reply from <font color="#cc0000"><b>MAILER-DAEMON</b></font>
saying the messages were not received. The messages, however, were
received. This irritated me but I should have left it alone...<br>
<br>
... skipping ahead ...<br>
<br>
Because I had no idea what the hell I was doing... I started
uninstalling and reinstalling Debian packages...<br>
<br>
I switched back and forth from sendmail to postfix and procmail about
4/5 times.<br>
<br>
... PAUSE ... (yes - I am a <font color="#cc0000"><b>damned idiot</b></font>)<br>
<br>
Anyway... After searching tutorials on the web - I mostly used this one
from Linux World: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32735.htm">http://linux.sys-con.com/read/32735.htm</a><br>
<br>
I finally got cyrus working to the point where it receives emails.<br>
<br>
But now the beautiful beast, <font color="#cc0000"><b>CRON DAEMON</b></font>,
sends me a message about sendmail not found every 20 minutes - As far
as I know, I don't even have sendmail installed because I use postfix...<br>
<br>
I am sorry, I don't know what versions I have. I tried postfix -v,
imapd -v, uname -ack, ugh, pffft... I don't know what the hell I am
doing...<br>
<br>
I use Debian stable with Debian packages and I have the latest upgrades
for everything.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance again. <br>
<br>
P.S. You guys are damned insane, btw - especially this guy: <big><font
color="#cc0000"><b>Chester R. Hosey</b></font></big><br>
<br>
"Total protonic reversal" - Damn that's funny - I think I'll sledge
hammer my server and go watch Ghostbusters...<br>
<br>
Chester R. Hosey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:35 -0400, ian wrote:
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<pre wrap="">You lost me at the headlight...
I just want Cron to stop emailing me every 20 minutes...
I'm not sure how to make Cron stop emailing me, and I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how I might go about fixing it.
Unless by stopping these emails, I would break something else...
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What I'm suggesting is that you stop worrying about the emails you're
getting, and start worrying about the condition that's causing the
messages to be sent.
You can stop the emails without breaking anything additional. It's very
likely that something is broken that you're ignoring, but you can stop
receiving the emails without breaking anything else.
If you'd like to stop receiving them without fixing the actual problem,
install "procmail", and create a file called .procmailrc in your home
directory with the following contents (cut and paste them, or be sure to
type a zero on the first line, not a capital letter 'O'):
:0
* ^From: Cron Daemon.*
/dev/null
You should stop receiving the emails.
I've found that every time I try to ignore an actual error condition
because it _seems_ to be working it comes back to haunt me later. Please
feel free to ask for help fixing the actual problem if you'd like to
try, but additional details would definitely help.
Chet
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