problems with Mail

[michealclark]

Hi ya'll

Having a problem with mailing to root. I have a comand in the cron to perform a backup and mail the result to root. The cron command is ./dobackup | /usr/bin/mail "backup success" root where dobackup is the script to perform the backup.

The backup are taking place, and mail is drooping it in the /var/spool/mqueue directory. However I am getting a message -- Postmaster notify: Cannot deliver in 5 days

Can anyone help

 

[bjverzal]

Has it worked in the past ? If so, check the mail server you were using. If it never worked, you'll need to configure /etc/sendmail.cf and /etc/aliases.

Bill.

 

[michealclark]

Yes it has worked in the past. I think it stopped mailing after a reboot. Mail is working for other users just not root.

Thanks for your help.

mike1

 

[bjverzal]

Confirm that you have a valid "root" alias in /etc/aliases.

If so, run "newaliases".

Bill.

 

[michealclark]

Hi, Thanks again for your help, but I found the issue.
I checked the mqueue directory again, found a message stating that mail could not write to /usr/spool/mail/root: Permission Denied. I did a ls -al on the mail directory, and, sure enough, the root file belonged to the system group instead of the mail group with 664 permissions. A simple chgrp mail root did the trick.

But, thanks again

 

[ElgisRamon]

I think you must do [tt]mail -s &quot;Backup ended&quot; root < /dev/null[/tt] or something.

I hope it works...
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