[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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