View Single Post
  #3   (View Single Post)  
Old 6th January 2009
Mantazz Mantazz is offline
Shell Scout
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 90
Default

Here is a line that caught my eye in /var/log/maillog
Code:
Jan  6 03:04:24 sendmail[4673]: n05CBoHb001464: to=<root@myserver.org>, delay=19:50:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=363219
9, relay=local, dsn=5.2.0, stat=Service unavailable (/var/mail/root: irregular f
ile)
(where myserver.org is in the place of what I actually call the system)
I then checked /var/mail/root:
Code:
ls -ltd /var/mail/root
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  mail  13 Dec 21 10:03 /var/mail/root -> /root/varmail
Which was something I did a while ago because the file was too large for the partition I made for /var. We can then look at /root/varmail:
Code:
 ls -ltd /root/varmail 
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  45164271 Jan  6 10:25 /root/varmail
Did I hopelessly break something here? I notice that for other users' mail files, the permissions are generally 600, which matches the permissions on /root/varmail.
Reply With Quote