[Techtalk] Howto remove everything email-related from Debian?

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-09-27 17:43:12, schrieb Conor Daly:
> It strikes me that cron is at fault here.  If a program being run by cron
> generates output for the screen that is not handled, cron will email that
> output to the user.  The usual way to deal with that is to redirect the
> output from the program to either a logfile or to /dev/null (if you don't
> care about the output).  Given that unexpected output from a program
> running under cron is usually an error message, it's probably better to
> use a logfile rather than /dev/null .  My cron entries look like:
> 
> * * * * * /path/to/program1 > /path/to/logfile 2>&1
> * * * * * /path/to/program2 > /dev/null 2>&1
> * * * * * /path/to/program3 >> /path/to/appended/logfile 2>&1
> 
> These will eliminate cron's attempts to email stuff.

Why not set:

MAILTO=

in the crontab?  --  This avoid mangeling of all crontab-lines

> What happens if you do 'apt-get remove qmail' ?

Can give heavy errors on Debian-Systems.

Better is:  apt-get --purge remove qmail +ssmtp


Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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