No 'root' entry in /var/mail

[Derek Ragona]

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.
>
>
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