On: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:58:40 -0500 Igor S Livshits writes:
>
> Hello,
> Well, I left my hamm system half set up when other things distracted
> me. I had cron running, but no functional MTA fully installed.
>
> I was thus plesantly surprised that cron actually managed to get an
> email message to me once it executed a scheduled command for
> me. Question is: Does cron know how to deal with MX records or did
> it just invoke my half-installed sendmail 8.9 and it found a backup
> mail server for my box?
Chances are good that even a half-installed sendmail with just a
rudimentary sendmail.cf is able to deliver local mail.
BTW: cron seems to invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail directly as MTA.
Torsten
PS: I had a similiar problem some times ago. I updated inn from 1.5.1
to 1.7.2 (while upgrading from bo to hamm) and unfortunately, my
system started fetching news while the inn was still unconfigured.
All of the news were gone, however, I had the old version of my
sucknewsrc laying around for later retrieval.
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