Re: [Exim] Freebsd system report problems

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 19:21:45 +1000, "Brown" wrote:

| after my machine does its daily system reports, it sends a mail to root,
| but then exim throws up an error and ends up not sending it
|
| anyone else have that problem or a solution?

You won't get far with FreeBSD if you don't improve the quality of your bug
reports / requests for help. :-)

You should have told us exactly what the error message given by Exim
was. Even if you don't understand an error message, it was probably
printed for a reason, and may well be understood by the people you ask
for help.

In this case, the answer to your question is in either the exim
configure file or the /etc/aliases file, take you pick:

/usr/local/etc/exim/configure:
--------
# No local deliveries will ever be run under the uids of these users (a colon-
# separated list). An attempt to do so gets changed so that it runs under the
# uid of "nobody" instead. This is a paranoic safety catch. Note the default
# setting means you cannot deliver mail addressed to root as if it were a
# normal user. This isn't usually a problem, as most sites have an alias for
# root that redirects such mail to a human administrator.
[...]
never_users = root
--------

/etc/aliases:
--------
# Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so
# you would do well in either reading roots mailbox or forwarding
# roots email from here.

# root: me@???
--------

The next question you have may not be so easy to answer in the absence
of helpful information so next time, try to answer these questions in
your bug reports / requests for help:

1) What exactly did you do (list specific instructions in order)?

2) What exactly did you expect to see (sample output / explanation)?

3) What did you see instead (error messages / log exerpts)?

Ciao,
Sheldon.