Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 13:13:08 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No 'root' entry in /var/mail Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060513131230.026801e0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <317253d70605131108x444e4774rad24cd0b3ad31401@mail.gmail.co m> References: <20060513134302.4C95.GERARD@seibercom.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20060513125615.02680970@mail.computinginnovations.com> <317253d70605131108x444e4774rad24cd0b3ad31401@mail.gmail.com>
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I don't know why it wasn't created. It was in older versions of FreeBSD.
-Derek
At 01:08 PM 5/13/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>On 5/13/06, Derek Ragona <derek@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@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.
>
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