Sendmail user mail file missing - Again Stupid Mistake

[David Niemi]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:49 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> David Niemi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > 
> >>David Niemi wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>Thanks for the tips, I tried it an the user still doesn't receive the
> >>>>>messages from the cron jobs via aliases.  Yes, I did verify that the
> >>>>>name to receive the root email is correct and I did run newaliases.

> 
> What's the output of:
> # praliases | grep root | sort
> 
> There should be a line:
> 
> root:daven
> 
> if you've set up the alias properly.
> 
> If it's not there, what's the output of:
> # grep daven /etc/aliases

#$@&!! and a bunch of other 4 letter words, I just noticed that I hadn't
removed the commenting "#" in front of the person to receive root's
e-mail at the bottom!  I don't know how many times I've looked at that
line and didn't see anything wrong with it!!