Gary Aitken:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to postfix and trying to administer a debian google-compute
> box, also new to me (coming from fbsd). So lots of opportunities
> for learning...
>
> I modified /etc/crontable to fire off some backup stuff (a shell
> script that does a "gcloud compute disks snapshot ...". Cron logs
> attempting to start the script, then logs:
> cron[1214]: sendmail: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group =
> postfix/sendmail[8628]: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group =
Please DO follow a proper Postfix installation procedure.
- Either install from package.
- Or install from source code.
This is not something that you should be fixing by hand.
Wietse
