sendmail dependency

[Joost van Baal]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:09:43AM -0500, Kohler, Benjamin Joseph (UMR-Student) wrote:
> I'm using gentoo linux.  There is no MTA installed with the base
> system

Hu?  How does it report the output of cron jobs then?  Or does the base
system lack cron?

> , but it wasnt really a problem to add one.

OK.

> I was just
> wondering why there was no mention of an MTA at all in the
> requirements, i guess its a standard component of most every major
> distro though.

Yup.  Generally, Unix-like systems have a /usr/{sbin,lib}/sendmail .

In Lire lr_mail, as used by lr_log2mail, uses it.  Anyway:

logreport/service% cvs commit -m 'more explicit on /usr/sbin/sendmail
 requirement.  Thanks Benjamin Joseph Kohler for reporting problems with
 this on a base Gentoo system' INSTALL

:)

Bye,

Joost

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