Email-reports from nightly yum updates?

Justin Willmert justin at jdjlab.com
Sat Jan 7 07:04:49 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:

>On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 22:42 -0600, Justin Willmert wrote:
>  
>
>>/etc/aliases and find the line that starts 'root:' (it should be the 
>>last line or so). Replace what is there with your username (or a full 
>>email address if you want it to be moved to a remote server) and (if I
>>remember correctly...) uncomment the line.
>>    
>>
>
>Don't forget that does require you to either have your system configured
>with a real domain name, or sendmail (or sendmail replacement)
>configured to rewrite outgoing messages to have a real domain name.
>
>In most cases, you won't be able to send an e-mail from root at localhost,
>or any address with fake domain name, to an ISP's mail account.
>
>  
>
Thanks for correcting that point I missed. I was thinking of what I did, 
and never gave a real-domainless computer a thought. Good thing to know 
there are people out there looking out for me! {^_^}

Justin




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