[solved] smartd warning emails not arriving

HyperBaton · 2008-12-27 20:23:14

My server runs the smartd daemon so that I receive an email when a drive is bound to fail. Today I checked /var/log/daemon and found this:

Dec 26 15:22:47 hb-server smartd[2319]: Device: /dev/sdd, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!
Dec 26 15:22:47 hb-server smartd[2319]: Sending warning via mail to hyperbaton@gmail.com ...
Dec 26 15:22:48 hb-server smartd[2319]: Warning via mail to xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com produced unexpected output (46 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR:  /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Dec 26 15:22:48 hb-server smartd[2319]: Warning via mail to xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com: successful

I thought smartd used mail to send it's emails, guess I was wrong. But this sendmail application, I can't find it in the repositories, where can I get it?

Last edited by HyperBaton (2008-12-28 19:13:19)

.:B:. · 2008-12-27 21:20:37

output (46 bytes) to STDOUT/STDERR:  /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

Look - that's your error right there.

It can 'send' mails - which usually means you need an MTA installed to handle that. Remember the Unix philosophy: let specialised tools cooperate to get complex things done in a flexible manner.

HyperBaton · 2008-12-27 21:29:02

So what should I install? Will postfix install the sendmail application?

[hb@hb-server ~]$ yaourt -Ss sendmail
extra/postfix 2.5.5-1
     Secure, fast, easy to administer drop in replacement for Sendmail (MTA)
community/perl-mail-sendmail 0.79-3
     Perl/CPAN Module Mail::Sendmail : Simple platform independent mailer

.:B:. · 2008-12-27 22:17:56

It won't, but it is an MTA too (and I guess the package has a symlink to the binary that's called sendmail for compatibility reasons). It will need some configuring though .

HyperBaton · 2008-12-27 22:32:49

Okay, I'm starting to follow I think I've installed ssmtp and configured it. That hard drive is going to keep on crashing, so I will let you know if it works soon enough Thanks for the help so far.

.:B:. · 2008-12-27 23:46:36

No problem . I stripped your e-mail address out of the posts though, never know when a spambot picks it up .

HyperBaton · 2008-12-28 13:04:47

Hehe, thanks, but gmail spam filter is pretty awesome, I get about 500 spam mails every month, so it doesn't really matter anymore

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[solved] smartd warning emails not arriving

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