no mail from / for root

Steve Rieger riegersteve at gmail.com
Sat Feb 11 06:04:15 UTC 2006 

in your /etc/aliases file can you post what it says net to the entry
root:	??????????????




On Feb 10, 2006, at 8:40 AM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:

> Could you expand a bit on what you mean by
> "you need to define your root aliases" . Many thanks.
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Steve Rieger <riegersteve at gmail.com>
>> they get seved from localhost.
>>
>>
>> you need to define your root aliases, and sun sendmail -b -m 15 (i
>> think thats the command)
>> Chaim RIeger
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:29 PM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> I guess the curiosity here is that:
>>>
>>> [root at rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep mail
>>> root   19005 18945  0 20:23 pts/0    00:00:00 grep mail
>>> [root at rhel1 root]$
>>> [root at rhel1 root]$ ps -aeef | grep master
>>> root   19081 18945  0 20:24 pts/0    00:00:00 grep master
>>> [root at rhel1 root]$
>>>
>>> Yet root has 123 messages. Where are they being served-up from????
>>>
>>>
>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>> From: Steve Rieger <riegersteve at gmail.com>
>>>> ps -aeef | grep mail or ps -aeef | grep master
>>>> Chaim Rieger
>>>> at the command prompt as root type mail, if you have any it will  
>>>> show
>>>> up there,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> did you add the proper aliases.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:01 AM, j_70 at comcast.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the replies to this. My curiosity is that I have two
>>>>> RHEL4 machines, one where root is sending mail, one where it is
>>>>> not. As far as I can tell (ps -ef | grep sendmail & ps -ef | grep
>>>>> postfix) neither of these daemons are running on either machine.
>>>>> So, what is sending the mail?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
>>>>> From: "Wayne Pinette" <Wpinette at tru.ca>
>>>>>> Also, I believe that sendmail's default configuration in RHEL 4
>>>>>> is to
>>>>>> only listen  to localhost anyway.  This means
>>>>>> that even if it is running (with just default) outside users  
>>>>>> still
>>>>>> won't connect to the smtp port, just localhost users.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In addition, you can also fire up iptables to block port 25 as
>>>>>> well,
>>>>>> just to make sure.
>>>>>> If you want email to flow from your machine, though, sendmail (or
>>>>>> postfix) does need to be running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wayner
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Job Cacka <job at ccbmail.ccbox.com> 02/08/06 8:33 am >>>
>>>>>> 	Because sendmail is disabled, and no other mailer is enabled,
>>>>>> this is why
>>>>>> you are not getting the root mail. What we do to protect
>>>>>> sendmail is
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> block port 25 access to all servers except for the email servers.
>>>>>> This
>>>>>> means
>>>>>> that the port is not available on that machine except locally,
>>>>>> in our
>>>>>> own
>>>>>> WAN. We use an external hardware device to accomplish this,
>>>>>> which is
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> only way to create a true firewall. Obviously keeping sendmail
>>>>>> off is
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> best security, but then so is using scissors on your CAT 5
>>>>>> connections.
>>>>>> 	I would guess that if you are keeping sendmail up2date with the
>>>>>> RHN then
>>>>>> you have nothing to worry about. Unless you are NSA, FBI, CIA,  
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> company
>>>>>> with secrets worth knowing, or good bandwidth that hackers/ 
>>>>>> spammers
>>>>>> might
>>>>>> want to exploit.
>>>>>> 	There are other mail servers in RHES 4. Dovecot comes to mind
>>>>>> and I think
>>>>>> that Courier is also available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Job Cacka
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>>>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of
>>>>>> j_70 at comcast.net
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:13 AM
>>>>>> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>>>>> Subject: no mail from / for root
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have an RHES4 mahine which does not send any mail to or from
>>>>>> root.
>>>>>> For
>>>>>> example, the result of a cron job is not sent. I thought this
>>>>>> service
>>>>>> was
>>>>>> enabled by default. If not, which services is it. I have read  
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> sendmail
>>>>>> has some security issues and since this machine will not be  
>>>>>> mailing
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> outside world, I did not want to start or configure it. Not sure
>>>>>> where
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> start looking. TIA.
>>>>>>
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