logwatch Mail Not Delivered

Garry T. Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 13:49:15 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, June 01, 2011 08:20:23 Garry T. Williams wrote:
> I noticed that logwatch mail stopped on my F15 system recently.  The
> problem was that some update turned off sendmail.  The mail was being
> generated, but could not be delivered because nothing was listening on
> the mail port at localhost.
> 
> The fix is:
> 
>     sudo systemctl start sendmail.service
>     sudo systemctl enable sendmail.service
> 
> I'm wondering why this service was turned off?

This may be a systemd bug.  Enabling sendmail.service is ineffective
after a reboot.  I still have to manually start this service after
boot.

-- 
Garry Williams


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