User root can't get email

[Jason Hellenthal]

And possibly /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:05:05AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
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> 
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Efraín Déctor wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I have a FreeBSD Server 8.2, the past few days I’ve noticed that the user root  was not recieving email. I ran a test simply by using:
> > 
> > mail root
> > 
> > Then in /var/log/messsages I got this message:
> > 
> > May  3 22:47:56 edh sendmail[74022]: q3RFM513074022: SYSERR(root): Cannot reopen ./dfq3RFM513074022: No such file or directory
> > May  3 22:47:56 edh sendmail[74022]: q3RFM514074022: SYSERR(root): putbody: Cannot open ./dfq3RFM513074022 for MAILER-DAEMON from root: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Im not using this server as a email server, but it is very important to me because I have some scripts running by cron that send the output by email to the user that is running them, in this case root.
> > 
> 
> If you have recently been working on upgrading your system in any way I
> would check the perms on all the directories in /var and possibly other
> systems as can be advised in a upgrade procedure within the handbook.
> 
> You may also attempt the following which may fix it but it comes with a
> disclaimer and you should know how to fix it if it breaks.
> 
> mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist
> 
> 
> Before doing the above, I would seriously ask myself... What did I do in
> those last few days or week or so... and at least attempt to backtrack
> to a conclusive result.
> 
> 
> Good luck.
> 
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