root email account is suddenly stopped to receive any email

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Feb 28 03:22:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:12:56AM +1000, Michael Leung wrote:
>    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.

Root shouldn't be recieving e-mail directly. (And, if you're using postfix,
and I think maybe exim, you *can't*, by design.)

Instead, edit /etc/aliases (and also /etc/postfix/aliases on FC2 -- in FC3
they all use the standard file) and redirect root's mail to a real account.

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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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