Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 01:05:05 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Efra=EDn_D=E9ctor?= <efraindector@motumweb.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User root can't get email Message-ID: <20120504050505.GA3940@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <CA5E07D8EE3B4DF8B60EE828F3BEDD7C@CMOTUM25PC> References: <CA5E07D8EE3B4DF8B60EE828F3BEDD7C@CMOTUM25PC>
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--J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Efra=C3=ADn D=C3=A9ctor wrote: > Hello. >=20 > I have a FreeBSD Server 8.2, the past few days I=E2=80=99ve noticed that = the user root was not recieving email. I ran a test simply by using: >=20 > mail root >=20 > Then in /var/log/messsages I got this message: >=20 > 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): putbod= y: Cannot open ./dfq3RFM513074022 for MAILER-DAEMON from root: No such file= or directory >=20 > Im not using this server as a email server, but it is very important to m= e 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. >=20 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. --=20 - (2^(N-1)) --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPo2OAAAoJEBSh2Dr1DU7WR2UIAKLOmkBTCWBM0/xb3doNmz5o c5swCGZ23wDumuruLcfq+kCvFLicRS1Sge2l2C2wyoYCeJ/runGQqvMRDpnTqMcy xoQgJcf8cIQkgVaRPHxg1rb0Q5fOrMuLUROEM4w+s0Cya5znHwcm1bxnikp5WEpG Nw6+FHoAJApakjGEQIONNXuWf3Ks9K6efJd55UBNKNnXpcu0WpviXr9/5Y/Ah0mW PZ/VT2RogIF/7xki4c2s/3/LUkcp3pkaVG4NpXvP4LIu1Wje9ulBi2DrUiOrc0RL kpcxVsZY4IN0oGwRECEN1NuaFru5WoYRTosdg7+uyUCqMXrqC0l9GA2DH8bF6pU= =6HpV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--
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