/etc/aliases

[Thomas E. Dukes]

Thanks you guys!!

I didn't notice it was commented out. :-(

I was getting worried over nothing.

Thanks again!!

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 16:39, 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
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
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Thomas E. Dukes <edukes at alltel.net>