From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 16: 4:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2387437B405 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.152.35]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020121000431.PHNI8780.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:04:31 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0L04Tn15352; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:04:30 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0L042f00574; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:04:02 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 00:04:02 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: James Long Cc: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" , Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSD Questions Subject: Re: you have mail msg at root login Message-ID: <20020121000402.B294@localhost> References: <3C4AD1AB.3030204@rambo.simx.org> <20020120143738.A306@localhost> <20020120154826.A31358@ns.museum.rain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020120154826.A31358@ns.museum.rain.com>; from list@ns.museum.rain.com on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:48:26PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-RC i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:48:26PM -0800, James Long wrote: > > Also, edit /etc/aliases to divert root's email to your normal user > > account. > > Are there technical reasons to do it this way rather than say, > using the ~root/.forward file? None that I can think of... I prefer the aliases file method, because it keeps that bit of configuration in /etc with everything else, rather than in a separate file in another directory. No reason not to do it the other way if you prefer that, though. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message