How to restart root sending emails?

From	Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to restart root sending emails?
Date	2017-03-12 12:00 +0100
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In an effort to get gnus to read root emails I've chowned
/var/mail/mail, added myself to the 'mail' group, changed the
permissions of /var/mail/mail, and generally frigged around with it.
Consequently root emails have seemingly not run my expected logwatch
this morning, and neither did it yesterday. I've googled but haven't
found anything useful.

So how do I restart root sending logwatch etc again please?

I'm getting emails from the cron daemon with no problems, but it seems
that root isn't sending them any more. I've rebooted, I've shut down and
then rebooted, but it still seems to be dead. So how do I restart root
sending logwatch etc again please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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How to restart root sending emails? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2017-03-12 12:00 +0100
  Re: How to restart root sending emails? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-03-13 04:10 +0100
    Re: How to restart root sending emails? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 05:00 +0100
      Re: How to restart root sending emails? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-03-13 20:30 +0100
    Re: How to restart root sending emails? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-13 19:30 +0100
    Re: How to restart root sending emails? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2017-03-13 19:50 +0100

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