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Hello,

I am facing a problem with ssmtp mailing agent.
I have installed and configured ssmtp in my RHEL5.3 system. I have written a shell script which sends mail to a couple of email id's. The script uses ssmtp to send mails. When I am running the scipt manually i.e. sh <script_name>.sh then the script is sending mail properly. But if I create a service which will start when the system will boot in RHEL and the service will just run that shell script (which will send email), then I am getting "ssmtp: Cannot open <ip_address>:25" error. The same error I am getting if I create a cronjob to run that script instead of creating a service.

NOTE: I have removed sendmail service from /etc/init.d.

My target is, I want to send email to a set of email id's as soon as the system boots into RHEL i.e. without any manual intervention.

Can anyone please help me out. I have checked a number of forums but did not get any answer which will fix my problem.

Thanks.

Is it possible you're trying to send emails before the network service has been brought up? Does ssmtp work later?

Corona688,

I have scheduled my service as the last service (Service start number 99) so I hope that all the service should have started by the time my service gets called.

Also, ssmtp works later, i.e. if I log into the system and manually run the script.

Just because the network service has started doesn't mean the network's actually ready, perhaps. Could you put a reasonable delay in your script?