On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Craig Woods wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since I have not posted for quite some time, let me give a
> congratulations to all the hard working people at Mandrake. Your LMDK
> 8.0 is a complete success. You worked your butts off, and it shows.
> Thanks to all.
>
> If I could get some direction on a simple matter, I would be most
> appreciative. What service and/or daemon runs system mail? This is the
> mail written to root about cron jobs, and other system info. I have
> noticed that I am not getting this mail, and there is no
> "/var/spool/mail/root" file being created. I tried a "touch" to create
> this file but still no data is being written to it. I can not seem to
> locate a man page or any other documentation about this internal mail
> process. Thanks for any help or pointers....
>
> Craig Woods
On my machine, it is postfix. Make sure it is running. The only change i had
to make was to get roots mail delivered to my normal account. That was an
option in one of the postfix config file (in /etc/postfix/ iirc). It says
something like:
# who gets roots mail
# root = marc
uncomment, change the name and you are set.
Also are you sure the cron jobs are set up correctly to send mail to root?
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