[Orca-dev] RE: /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot f ork forsendmail: No s uch file or directory

[Erik Melander]

I have personally use the MIME:Lite module in our production environments,
however I by no means
tried them all out :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Blair Zajac [mailto:blair at orcaware.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:07 PM
To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [orca-developers] /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot f
ork forsendmail: No s uch file or directory


If we could replace this with a CPAN module that can send email on Unix
and Win32 regardless of sendmail/postfix, that would be great.  There's
a ton of modules in CPAN that contain the word 'Mail' so we'll have to
look into it and see which is the best to use.

Blair

simon.klyne at arcordia.com wrote:
> 
> Take a look at 'lib/Orca/Utils.pm' line 30 in the function 'send_email'
> and modify it to use postfix instead of sendmail - sorry I don't know
> postfix so don't know what is needed
> 
> when you get it working you could probably post the diffs
> 
> Simon
> 
> Erik Melander <EMelander at wyndham.com> on 15/10/2001 14:56:25
> 
> Please respond to orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> 
> To:   "'orca-developers at yahoogroups.com'"
<orca-developers at yahoogroups.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  RE: [orca-developers] /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot
f
>       ork for sendmail: No s uch file or directory
> 
> Ideally I would still like to recieve warnings if certain machines are
not
> collecting properly.  For now to
> avoid  the defunct processes I am starting orca from cron once every 5
> minutes with the  -o flag.  I will
> keep  your suggestion in consideration if no other work-around presents
> itself.   Thanks!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simon.klyne at arcordia.com  [mailto:simon.klyne at arcordia.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001  8:51 AM
> To: orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re:  [orca-developers] /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot
> fork for sendmail:  No s uch file or directory
> 
> try commenting out the  'warn_email' definition in your config file.
> 
> Erik  Melander <EMelander at wyndham.com> on 15/10/2001 14:38:37
> 
> Please  respond to orca-developers at yahoogroups.com
> 
> To:    "'orca-developers at yahoogroups.com'"
> <orca-developers at yahoogroups.com>
> cc:
> Subject:   [orca-developers] /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot
> fork
>       for sendmail: No s uch file or  directory
> 
> When  reviewing my messages log on the machine  that hosts the orca
> process,
> I find the  following
> error   message:
> 
> /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: cannot fork for sendmail:  No such file
> or directory
> 
> which  correponds exactly to the  number of defunct processes that I spawn
> each  day.  Did I  misconfigure
> orca?  Orca is running on a Redhat v7.1 box, perl v  5.6.0-12, with  the
> latest version of orca.  In  addition,
> the  machine does not have sendmail, but rather uses postfix  (which seems
> to be the  problem).   Any
> suggestions?
> 
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