Tim wrote: > Tim: >>>> Has anyone else noticed that FC7's /var/mail is full of zero-byte >>>> mailboxes for all users? It includes ones for services (squid, >>>> webalizer, sshd, etc.), not just human users. > > Chris: >>> Not until you mentioned it. How odd. > > Jeroen van Meeuwen: >> It isn't really that odd at all, since all users can receive mail. >> Sometimes though, they never do (some system accounts are in >> /etc/aliases and forward to root, some systems never receive mail from >> the outside world and are not being used to send mail locally). > > Well, odd in that this is the first distro that I've seen do that. I'd > have thought that the aliases file might have been looked at before > making mailbox files. Or that they'd be created the first time a > message was sent to them. Though I can see problems with configuring a > mail client for the first time, if it directly accesses the mail spool > file. > > I can't see it being a problem, it just seemed strange. I agree it is very strange. As a matter of interest, how would I read mail addressed to tcpdump? Does it actually allow lunatics to send email to these virtual users? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
