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Re: How to use reportbug from inside a chroot?



On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 07:03:21PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>Hi,
>
>while I use woody+backports on my working machine, I keep an up-to-date
>sid chroot for developping purposes. When reporting a bug I find in the
>chroot, I have to save it in a file and then rerun reportbug on woody,
>because I do not have an MTA installed in the chroot.
>
>I am not an expert in chroots and/or MTAs, but I guess that it is
>impossible to run two MTAs on the same machine, even if one is in a
>chroot, because they will try to listen at the same network ports. 
>
>Is there a way to send bug reports to the parent machine's MTA, without
>installing and SMTP server there?

Install ssmtp in the chroot.

>TIA, Frank
>-- 
>Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
>Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Regards,

Anibal Monsalve Salazar
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