postfix or sendmail from crontab?

qwertyjjj · 09-20-2011, 02:57 AM

I have registered my email address in the etc/aliases file.
I have also put a hardcoded email address into etc/crontab.
However, I am not receiving any emails from the crontab processes, which run every 10mins.

/var/maillog has entries but stopped as of a few hours ago.
Is there any difference between sendmail and postfix?

mails from PHP scripts are working correctly and arriving so I'm not sure what the problem is.

Code:

[root@vps8259 zoneinfo]# service postfix restart
Shutting down postfix:                                     [FAILED]
Starting postfix:                                          [FAILED]
[root@vps8259 zoneinfo]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [  OK  ]
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting sm-client:                                        [  OK  ]
[root@vps8259 zoneinfo]#

Code:

Sep 20 00:06:30 vps8259 sendmail[3473]: p8K66LrP003470: to=<root@vps8259.hosting.com>, ctladdr=<root@vps8259.lws-hosting.com> (0/0), delay=00:00:09, xdelay=00:00:09, mailer=$
Sep 20 01:39:30 vps8259 postfix[3746]: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: localhost
Sep 20 01:39:31 vps8259 sendmail[3747]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by jason
Sep 20 01:39:31 vps8259 sendmail[3747]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
Sep 20 01:39:36 vps8259 postfix[3748]: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: localhost
Sep 20 01:39:43 vps8259 sendmail[3771]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by jason
Sep 20 01:39:43 vps8259 sendmail[3771]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
Sep 20 01:39:43 vps8259 sendmail[3776]: starting daemon (8.13.8): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Sep 20 01:39:43 vps8259 sm-msp-queue[3784]: starting daemon (8.13.8): queueing@01:00:00
Sep 20 09:58:37 vps8259 sendmail[3831]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by jason
Sep 20 09:58:37 vps8259 sendmail[3831]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 19 bytes, 788 bytes total
Sep 20 10:01:40 vps8259 postfix[3859]: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: localhost
Sep 20 10:01:41 vps8259 sendmail[3860]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by jason
Sep 20 10:01:41 vps8259 sendmail[3860]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 19 bytes, 788 bytes total
Sep 20 10:01:41 vps8259 postfix[3861]: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: localhost
Sep 20 10:01:49 vps8259 sendmail[3884]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by jason
Sep 20 10:01:49 vps8259 sendmail[3884]: /etc/aliases: 77 aliases, longest 19 bytes, 788 bytes total
Sep 20 10:01:49 vps8259 sendmail[3889]: starting daemon (8.13.8): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Sep 20 10:01:49 vps8259 sm-msp-queue[3897]: starting daemon (8.13.8): queueing@01:00:00

acid_kewpie · 09-21-2011, 01:15 AM

why are you trying to run both postfix and sendmail??? cron will use the "mail" program to send out an email, this program is provided by both MTA packages, so you need to be clear which one you are using. I would suggest postfix, and so totally uninstall sendmail.

qwertyjjj · 09-21-2011, 02:11 AM

postfox doesn't seem to start.
Does that mean I am using sendmail by default.
Can I uninstall postfix?

Reuti · 09-22-2011, 04:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

why are you trying to run both postfix and sendmail??? cron will use the "mail" program to send out an email, this program is provided by both MTA packages, so you need to be clear which one you are using. I would suggest postfix, and so totally uninstall sendmail.

I second this. If postfix is not starting, you can check the various log files in /var/log to get a clue why it’s not working.