errors

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> I am getting a lot of errors on bootup.  I am trying to find the problem in
> the log files.  I found lots of errors in mail.err as below:
>
> Feb 24 15:20:37 sentry10 nullmailer[18682]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
> Feb 24 15:20:37 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[18683]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[18684]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
> Feb 24 15:20:38 sentry10 nullmailer[1871]: Sending failed:  Host not found
>
> About 30 of the above.  I am running xubuntu 13.10.  I am not sure if this
> is the omnnly error, as
> running the "system log" program in the apps menu causes a crash.
>
> help?

Your system is trying ot send mail. It looks like no mail server
program is installed. Is this a server that is supposed to send and
receive email for you? Or, is this a personal machine of some sort
that should be configured to use a mail server? Either way, this is
just the sign of a misconfiguration, not something actually broken.

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W. Scott Lockwood III
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