On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:49 +0100, Maccy wrote: > My Fedora 6 system is no longer sending mail to root and I can't for the > life of me work out why. > > The aliases file hasn't changed recently and root is set up to point to > my user account in the relevant lower section. > > /var/spool/mail/root is owned by root:root but hasn't been added to > since late May. A few things I can think of to check: /var being too full SELinux permissions/contexts name resolution (sendmail itself having trouble mailing) networking issues (sendmail not being able to listen for mail) I had the last one with Network Manager not getting my network working before sendmail started up, on Fedora 9, so I wasn't getting the system mails. My solution, there, was to stop using Network Manager. On Fedora 7, I hadn't noticed a sendmail problem, but other services weren't working right with Network Manager. My solution, there, was to re-arrange the order of some init scripts (in /etc/rc5.d/) to make Network Manager start sooner, some things start later, and to put some service restart scripts into the Network Manager Dispatcher (/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, all using Gnome in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
