On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:30 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > 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? > > Is there a .procmailrc file in the home directory of the "problem" user? > If so, what does it contain? > There is no .procmailrc file in the home directory (/home/daven) of the user, nor is there in the FC3 backup of the user folder. Once the user was created and I was finally able to log in I only copied over the user files and the .evolution and the .mozilla directories. I was leary of copying anything else forward unless I found I needed it.
