f21 - dead.letter

[Robert Moskowitz]

Well, still no mail.  Something else is needed.  The dead.letter in 
/root ends with:


=====================================================


  ###################### Logwatch End #########################



/etc/cron.daily/0logwatch:

sendmail: Cannot open mail:25

=====================================================

But I see:

=====================================================


# netstat -na|grep 25
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25            0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 ::1:25                  :::* LISTEN

=====================================================


Digging a little deeper in journalctl I find:

Jan 04 03:01:07 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16108]: Unable to locate mail
Jan 04 03:01:07 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16108]: Cannot open mail:25
Jan 04 03:01:07 lx120e.htt-consult.com CROND[16019]: (rgm) MAIL (mailed 
298 bytes of output but got status 0x0001

Jan 04 03:36:01 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[16050]: Job `cron.daily' 
started
Jan 04 03:36:01 lx120e.htt-consult.com run-parts[16323]: 
(/etc/cron.daily) starting 0logwatch
Jan 04 03:36:09 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16551]: Unable to locate mail
Jan 04 03:36:09 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16551]: Cannot open mail:25
Jan 04 03:36:12 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[16050]: Job `cron.daily' 
terminated (mailing output)
Jan 04 03:36:12 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16747]: Unable to locate mail
Jan 04 03:36:12 lx120e.htt-consult.com sSMTP[16747]: Cannot open mail:25
Jan 04 03:36:12 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[16050]: Tried to mail 
output of job `cron.daily', but mailer process (/usr/sbin/sendmail) 
exited with status 1
Jan 04 03:36:12 lx120e.htt-consult.com anacron[16050]: Normal exit (1 
job run)


So I check up on postfix:

# systemctl -l status postfix
   postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; enabled)
    Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-01-03 21:31:19 EST; 10h ago
   Process: 11692 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/postfix start (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
   Process: 11689 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/chroot-update 
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Process: 11684 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/postfix/aliasesdb 
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Main PID: 11765 (master)
    CGroup: /system.slice/postfix.service
            ├─11765 /usr/libexec/postfix/master -w
            ├─11767 qmgr -l -t unix -u
            └─18797 pickup -l -t unix -u

Jan 03 21:31:18 lx120e.htt-consult.com aliasesdb[11684]: newaliases: In 
sSMTP aliases are read from a plain text file
Jan 03 21:31:18 lx120e.htt-consult.com aliasesdb[11684]: touch: failed 
to get attributes of ‘/etc/aliases.db’: No such file or directory
Jan 03 21:31:19 lx120e.htt-consult.com postfix/master[11765]: daemon 
started -- version 2.11.3, configuration /etc/postfix


Then try to create aliases.db from the /etc/aliases that I had edited to 
add routing root's mail to rgm:

# newaliases
newaliases: In sSMTP aliases are read from a plain text file



??? Huh?

Advice here would be greatly appreciated.  Looks like eventhough they 
added postfix back into the default build (remeber in F20 where they cut 
it?), it is not ready to run 'out of the box'.




On 01/03/2015 09:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I just noticed that I am getting my logwatch email dropped off as 
> dead.letter under /root.
>
> And that my personal cron rsync is also coming as dead.letter under 
> /home/rgm/
>
> It seems that postfix is not running by default:
>
> # systemctl status postfix
>   postfix.service - Postfix Mail Transport Agent
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/postfix.service; disabled)
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
> so I enabled and started postfix.
>
> Is that what I need to do, and all I need to do?
>
> I would like things to work tonight when cronie kicks off its jobs.
>
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