On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 09:11 -0800, Alison Chaiken wrote: > Greetings all, in January I switched my main development desktop > system and a new laptop to Debian-KDE after being a Fedora user since > its inception. I'm pretty happy with the change but have a couple > of remaining problems. > > The biggest one is that I can't figure out how to get logrotate to use > the postfix smtp daemon I installed to send mail to root. (I have > no desire to send mail from these systems for any purpose except to > root for system administration.) "mail root" from CLI works, and > some programs (smartd, for example) do send email properly to the root > account. The programs run nightly by cron do not, however. This > is not an aliases problem or a difficulty with postfix configuration > since the CLI invocation works fine. I have RTFM'ed at length but > simply cannot figure out how to get cron's subprocesses to use > postfix. I have changed all invocations of sendmail to postfix in > /etc/*.conf that I can find. Does anyone have any suggestions as to > where to look? logrotate.conf needs to be changed? > > Thanks, > Alison I believe that Cron uses a system call to sendmail. You can set options in /etc/mail.rc Perhaps such as sendmail="/usr/sbin/postfix" To be sure you can add the option 'debug' in the /etc/mail.rc, or add -d to your Cron job sending the mail, which would help prevent excessive logs. I am afraid that I am also new to Debian, and I run qmail on a CentOS server. My Cron jobs successfully send to root on that system. So perhaps my thoughts are flawed some as I have not used postfix. I would love to know your solution Kristen
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