[Users] minimil+mailx?
gregwm
openvz at greatlakedata.com
Sun Jul 25 19:32:25 EDT 2010
>
> > i'd like to install only what's necessary in a container to send mail.
> > /bin/mail works fine in the centos [actually rhel] default container. in
> the minimal
> > container i've added mailx, sendmail, sendmail-cf, and m4, but still
> > can't send mail. what do i still need?
>
> Unless you installed them someway that didn't honor the dependencies, that
> should be plenty. Any error messages in your logs?
nada. the default container isn't making any logs either, but it did send
the mail
> WHY can't it send mail?
sure wish i knew! /bin/mail of course gives no error.
> Look at the CentOS/RHEL deployment guide and you'll see that by default
> they only accept inbound connections from 127.0.0.1 (
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-email-mta.html#s2-email-mta-sendmail)
> so if you haven't changed that, you'll need to. So far as sending email
> goes, you should be able to send just fine.
>
sending is all i want. nagios is working fine. nagios and sendmail is all
i all i have or want in this container. everything installed from rhn
repositories with rhel yum, no conflicts or errors.
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