Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:43:54 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika <nimrodm@bezeqint.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages Message-ID: <20000818164354.B17537@localhost.bsd.net.il> In-Reply-To: <200008180035.e7I0ZDL12758@deborah.paradise.net.nz>; from rshea@opendoor.co.nz on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:34:53PM %2B1200 References: <200008180035.e7I0ZDL12758@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:34:53PM +1200, rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote:
> Hi - I'm getting a lot of error messages from SENDMAIL appearing
> on my screen whilst I'm, for instance, in a text editor. This is most
> distracting but I don't have time to fix up SENDMAIL at the
> moment. Is there some way I can stop these messages appearing
> ? I don't mind them going to a log file I just don't want them
> bouncing up in front of me all the time.
In your /etc/syslog.conf, change the line that reads:
*.err;mail.crit /dev/console
To:
*.err /dev/console
That should do it, but if your sendmail isn't doing any useful
work, you need not run it at all. Put this line in your /etc/rc.conf
file:
sendmail_enable="NO"
Then just kill the current sendmail process ('killall sendmail' as
root, or just reboot).
> Along the same lines the source of the emails which SENDMAIL is
> having trouble sending is a cron job. It doesn't expliciltly send mail
> but the output gets mailed to the job owner (me). Is there some
> way I could adapt the job so that cron doesn't email the output to
> me ?
Not sure about this one.
If you look at /etc/crontab you will see the the output of the
periodic jobs is mailed to root. You can try and remove the '|
sendmail root' and see if that helps.
The cron(8) man page says, however, that all cron output is mailed
to the owner of the job (in your case - root). If you want to change
that try adding the following line at the beginning of /etc/crontab:
MAILTO=
(nothing after the = sign should tell cron not to send mail as
output. If you change that to MAILTO=yourusername it will mail
everything to you).
--
Nimrod.
http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27
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