Bob Williams [06.03.2012 10:09]:
In previous openSUSE installations I have checked the box for the first user to get system mail, and it works.
On this new 12.1 installation with KDE 4.7.2, with a pre-existing /home, I did the same, but no system mail comes to the user.
Even after doing
:~ # service postfix start :~ # chkconfig postfix on
an incantation that I found on a forum, root now gets mail, but it is not redirected to me.
Any suggestions
Bob
Hi Bob, I think postfix is special on 12.1. On one of my 12.1 boxes, "insserv postfix" was not sufficient. I had to issue "systemctl enable postfix.service", though insserv told me the command was passed to systemctl. First, do a "grep root /etc/aliases". One of the resulting lines should point to your account, like (in my case) root: werner Maybe you have to fix this on your box. Second, check if postfix uses this aliases file by "postconf alias_maps". You should get a line like alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases If you have a line like "alias_maps = hash:/etc/postix/aliases", you refer to the wrong aliases file. Fix the config (/etc/postfix/main.cf) to point to /etc/aliases. Then do a "newaliases" as root, and a "rcpostfix reload" as root. After that, new system mail should be delivered to your mailbox (old mail is not sent again, of course). BTW: on openSUSE, you nomally do not use "service $something start", but "rcsomething start", and "insserv something" instead of "chkconfig something on" - though it should do exactly the same. I think you found a RedHat incantation ;-) HTH Werner -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org