/usr/sbin/sendmail: can't open the smtp port (25) on mail.

IvanHoe · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658

Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this message? Is it something to do with cron? If so, why is it trying to send email from my computer?

Also, how do I remove cron (specifically vcron) from my startup?

pilla

Looks like something is trying to send an email and sendmail is not installed. Nothing serious, I think. Some scripts may try to send emails to root when things go bad.

rac

IvanHoe · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 658

Thanks, I'll give that a try after I've finished dealing with Gnome.

darktux · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject:

Perhaps the port is already beeing used... To check who's using it do:

djprotoss · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 37

its something to do with vcron apparenty (I was having the same problem). I found the fix else where on the forums (can't remember where though)
add the line MAILTO="" to the top of /etc/crontab
note: this hasn't worked for everyone apparently!

Mats L · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2002 Posts: 1

I had the same problem, i used ssmtp and vcron. Ssmtp is not a real mailserver (can only handel sending post) and neads to be configured to a real server. This is maybe about port 25. I use now postfix instead.
The next problem is that vcron has some script error, it told me that 'root' is not a valid komando. I mad a chance in /etc/crontab...
*/15 * * * * test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons
0 * * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
0 0 * * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
0 0 * * 6 rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
0 0 1 * * rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
and run 'crontab /etc/crontab' and restarted vcron, I do not know if this is the right but I think the error from vcron still be working for me, and I don't get more mail from vcron.