[Centos] sendmail and root

[heinlein at madboa.com (Paul Heinlein)]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Francois Caen wrote:

>> I installed pine on a centos 4 machine, and noticed that root had 
>> no mail.
>>
>> I checked on var/spool/mail .... nothing for root
>
> Do you have an alias (/etc/aliases , scroll to the bottom) directing 
> root's email elsewhere?

Sendmail normally logs its activities in /var/log/maillog. There 
should be a record of any sending/receiving/delivery in that file:

   grep root /var/log/maillog

If that fails, there's a slight chance it got recorded in the main 
system log:

   grep root /var/log/messages

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx>