root email account is suddenly stopped to receive any email

Ian P. Thomas ipt at scraemon.org
Mon Feb 28 02:09:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:12 +1000, Michael Leung wrote:
> Hi all,
>    I am new to Fedora. I don't know what happen. Just my root email
> cannot get any email from cron job and logwatch.
> I don't know why. Would you like to give me some direction? what kind
> of log I can read to find out the problem.
> 
> yours,
> Michael

If you are logged in as a regular user and you e-mail root, does root
get the e-mail?

If that isn't the case, as root, read through /var/log/maillog and
search for entries containing 'root'.  This should show any messages
related to mail sent to root.


Ian




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