Thank you for responding. The /etc/aliases is empty (shame on me)
and the /etc/passwd shows /root as home directory for too.
Mail delivers properly to root when there is no procmail
statement in the .forward file.
Homer
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(607) 277-0959 A Green Earth and Peace. Internet Access, Ithaca NY
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
Homer Wilson Smith wrote:
Running Linux 2.0.38 and procmail 3.13.1
Mail to root is delivered to bin.
.forward = "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" procmail setuid to root
No .procmailrc file, or /etc/procmailrc.
Mail sent to root(_at_)romance(_dot_)lightlink(_dot_)com gets delivered
to
/var/spool/mail/bin
Only happens for root, other accounts work properly.
Why? Pointers to RTFM welcome.
Your MTA (Sendmail) would be responsible in this case. Look into
/etc/mail/aliases or /etc/aliases. I've changed my defaults, so
your's may be different, but the path is at least one or the other.
Also, it may be in /etc/passwd or /etc/group. Somewhere you changed
root's default name.
HTH
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