/etc/aliases
Thomas E. Dukes
edukes at alltel.net
Mon Aug 2 14:36:46 UTC 2004
Yes, thanks.
I didn't notice, but it was commented out.
Sorry about the over-sight.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> Snehangshu Karmakar
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:04 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Re: /etc/aliases
>
>
> Hello,
>
> The entry root:marc must be commented, it is used to redirect
> it to some other user.If needed you can add the entry and run
> newaliases command to make the .db file.
>
> Hope i made this clear to you.
>
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 Stuart Sears wrote :
> >On Friday 30 July 2004 20:40, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was looking at my /etc/aliases files and noticed that I
> have the entry:
> > >
> > > root: marc
> >This should be commented out in the aliases file - it was only ever
> >intended as an example of how to alias root's mail to an
> unprivileged user.
> >Ideally you should have such an alias in place - it is
> considered bad
> >practice to log in as root just to read email.
> > >
> > > Is this correct? I don't have a user "marc". I am
> getting mail for
> > > "root", so what is this? What should it be in a RedHat
> 9.0 system?
> >just replace marc with the name of an unprivileged user that
> you want
> >to use for this purpose. You must run the 'newaliases'
> command after doing this.
> >I would assume that if you are looking at the aliases file you may
> >already have known this...
> >HTH
> >
> >Stuart
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> >Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
> >
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