No 'root' entry in /var/mail

[Gerard Seibert]

On 5/13/06, Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> You can create that file, or set your account to get the root mail in
> /etc/mail/aliases. Be sure to run newaliases if you do that.
>
>          -Derek
>
>
> At 12:47 PM 5/13/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> >I just installed the new FBSD 6.1 on a new HD. The installation went
> >well. Shortly after installation, Sendmail started complaining. I
> >discovered that there is no entry for 'root' in the /var/mail directory.
> >I can 'su' into root, so I know it exists. It was always there on
> >previous versions of FSBD.
> >
> >Should I try to create the user 'root', or just ignore it? I do not want
> >to mess up the system.
> >
> >--
> >Gerard Seibert
> >gerard at seibercom.net

That is what I did. I just had not had time to setup Sendmail, etc.
since I had only just installed the new OS. I am really curious though
as to why there was no root entry there.