Re: /etc/mailname ?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> wrote:
>After a recent dist-upgrade I started getting
>empty email messages every day from root, with
>a domain name the same as in /etc/mailname .
>
>I don't remember when /etc/mailname was generated,
>or by which config program, so I don't recall
>what purpose the file serves.
>
>Any thoughts on what I need to reconfigure to
>get the daily system notices arriving again?

/etc/mailname is the file all packages are supposed to use to get the
hostname for outgoing mail and news messages they generate. If it's
wrong, go ahead and change it.

My guess is that that isn't related to why you're getting empty mails,
though; you could check root's crontab and /etc/cron* for a start as to
what you might need to look at, but from a distance it's hard to tell.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]