I don't have sendmail running on my system yet ...
I see a bewildering array of versions to chooses from
and ..
anyway I need at or cron ..
Do I need sendmail to get them to run ?
I tried
at now + 2 minutes
ls > hereiam
^D
and it did not produce the hereiam file ...
PeterJordan
If you are indeed using sendmail 8.x.x or better there is no need for
at or cron. Sendmail can be started up in daemon mode, in your
start-up script, to run at specified intervals (every 15 min.). For
example in my /etc/rc.d/rc.M file I have the following:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q 15m)..."
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q 15m
fi