Hi Werner, Firstly, I'm using systemd not sysVinit, if that makes a difference. 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
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.
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).
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.
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 ;-)
Many thanks for the tip. Stored in my 'useful tips' file :)
HTH Werner
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