Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 14:08:56 -0400 From: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net> To: "Derek Ragona" <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No 'root' entry in /var/mail Message-ID: <317253d70605131108x444e4774rad24cd0b3ad31401@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20060513125615.02680970@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <20060513134302.4C95.GERARD@seibercom.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20060513125615.02680970@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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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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