User root can't get email
Efraín Déctor
efraindector at motumweb.com
Fri May 4 22:15:08 UTC 2012
Hello.
Silly me didn't tought about doing a service sendmail onerestart before
sending this email. Executing that command solved my problem.
Thank you.
-----Mensaje original-----
From: Efraín Déctor
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 5:13 PM
To: Jason Hellenthal
Subject: Re: User root can't get email
Hello.
Silly me didn't tought about doing a service sendmail onerestart before
sending this email. Executing that command solved my problem.
Thank you.
-----Mensaje original-----
From: Jason Hellenthal
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 12:07 AM
To: Efraín Déctor
Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: User root can't get email
And possibly /etc/mtree/BSD.sendmail.dist
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 01:05:05AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> - (2^(N-1))
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