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тАО07-27-2007 05:35 AM
тАО07-27-2007 05:35 AM
Hi,
OS: 11.23
rx3600
I noticed our root mail file is empty.
I can email files from root to our exchange unix mail box no problem, but the system is not emailing root when errors occur.
I am not running sendmail. We are using a relay. I have .forward in place.
If I run a test for mail
example:
mail root
test
.
my /var/mail/root file is empty.
At one time this was working.
Any ideas why this stopped working?.
pwd
/var/mail
# ls -sltr
total 0
0 -rw-rw---- 1 oracle mail 0 Jul 27 04:00 oracle
0 -rw-rw---- 1 root mail 0 Jul 27 10:57 root
OS: 11.23
rx3600
I noticed our root mail file is empty.
I can email files from root to our exchange unix mail box no problem, but the system is not emailing root when errors occur.
I am not running sendmail. We are using a relay. I have .forward in place.
If I run a test for mail
example:
mail root
test
.
my /var/mail/root file is empty.
At one time this was working.
Any ideas why this stopped working?.
pwd
/var/mail
# ls -sltr
total 0
0 -rw-rw---- 1 oracle mail 0 Jul 27 04:00 oracle
0 -rw-rw---- 1 root mail 0 Jul 27 10:57 root
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тАО07-27-2007 05:45 AM
тАО07-27-2007 05:45 AM
Re: /var/mail/root file is empty
> my /var/mail/root file is empty.
> At one time this was working.
> Any ideas why this stopped working?.
> I am not running sendmail.
Who do you think will put anything into
/var/mail/root if you're not running an
e-mail receiving program (like sendmail) on
the system?
> We are using a relay.
Who's sending e-mail to the relay?
> I have .forward in place.
What's in it? And who looks at it?
> mail root
> test
> .
Does this get delivered anywhere?
> At one time this was working.
> Any ideas why this stopped working?.
> I am not running sendmail.
Who do you think will put anything into
/var/mail/root if you're not running an
e-mail receiving program (like sendmail) on
the system?
> We are using a relay.
Who's sending e-mail to the relay?
> I have .forward in place.
What's in it? And who looks at it?
> mail root
> test
> .
Does this get delivered anywhere?
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