On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:15 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:48 -0400, David Niemi wrote: > > On my system which had the problems with the smp kernels after the > > installation, when I was finally able to go through the first time boot > > screens I created the user "daven", no upper case this time. At first I > > had tried to keep the /home partition, but end up formating it anyway. > > > > Everything else was created fine except for the file in /var/spool/mail. > > I'd like to use this account to receive the messages for root from the > > different cron jobs through aliases and running "newaliases". > > > > I haven't made any changes to the files in /etc/mail or others. > > > > Other than backing up, removing the user, and copying the files back is > > there a way to get the sendmail file? > > > I don't have any problems with local mail coming to my user. > > There are 3 steps involved. > > 1. The aliases file must be edited to tell mail to transfer mail for > root to your user. It must have a line such as: > root: user > > 2. Then the command "newaliases" must be run to put that in the > database actually used. > > 3. The old mail file for root should be transferred to your user. (This > is not necessary but is nice so all of root's mail has been gotten.) > What I do is make sure my users mail file is empty (has size = 0 ), > then in the /var/spool/mail directory I first look at the ownership of > the users mail file (it should be owner "user" group "mail"). I then do > a "mv root user" followed by a "chown user:mail user" 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. I created another user and for this user the mail file was automatically created when the user was created. Any other ideas?
