Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

[Werner Flamme <werner.flamme@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams [06.03.2012 12:18]:
> Hi Werner,
>
> Firstly, I'm using systemd not sysVinit, if that makes a difference.

So do I. It should not make a difference, since the "old" commands are
modified so that they can "speak" with both worlds. Talking to systemd
seems to start with "systemctl" always ;-)

> Rest of my reply inline below ...

> On 06/03/12 10:03, Werner Flamme wrote:
> > 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
> Mine says root: bob

So, this seems to be OK, unless your account has another name ;-). "echo
"$LOGNAME, $USER" should output "bob, bob" now :-)

> > 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
> Same here, so no changes required.

Right.

> > 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).

Did you do a "newaliases" as user root, so that the file /etc/aliases.db
is newer than /etc/aliases? Because the "hash:" at the start means that
postfix lokks for the .db file. The "newaliases" command creates the
hash file from the text file. And doing a "rcpostfix reload" will not do
any harm, either :-)

> I think I need to wait for new mail to root to be generated (there are
> 23 old messages in root's mailspool), as everything seems to set up OK
> here now.

wflamme@rz36:~> mail -s "just a test" root
something to read
.
EOT

and soon you will have mail :-) If not, we have a real problem...

Regards,
Werner

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