Maccy wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> My SL 4.6 system is no longer sending mail to root and I can't for the
> life of me work out why.
> 
> The aliases file hasn't changed recently and root is set up to point to
> my user account in the relevant lower section.
> 
> /var/spool/mail/root is owned by root:root but hasn't been added to
> since late May.
> 
> I have a script that updates all my clients every 10 minutes and I need
> to know which are not getting updated at any point.
> 
> Any ideas? Where else can I look to solve?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Mark

This might seem basic, but have you restarted the sendmail daemon?
We recently had a machine that we didn't know was trying to send out 
quite a few reports to root, but for some reason (we never found out 
what) the sendmail daemon had died.  We did a
   /etc/init.d/sendmail restart
for something else, and suddenly got swamped by a couple months of 
e-mails that had built up.

Troy
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