From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 14:53:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAD616A4FC for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tonylabarbara@aol.com) Received: from imo-m27.mx.aol.com (imo-m27.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A5713C458 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:53:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tonylabarbara@aol.com) Received: from tonylabarbara@aol.com by imo-m27.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r9.3.) id v.cc8.1d5fa62d (34928); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:53:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webmail-mf04 (webmail-mf04.webmail.aol.com [64.12.88.217]) by cia-da04.mx.aol.com (v119.12) with ESMTP id MAILCIADA041-887047177357eb; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:53:11 -0400 References: <8C9DFA34D82171D-C6C-72A7@webmail-me13.sysops.aol.com> <471766D7.7080909@ibctech.ca> To: iaccounts@ibctech.ca Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:53:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <471766D7.7080909@ibctech.ca> X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI Received: from 200.88.97.17 by webmail-mf04.sysops.aol.com (64.12.88.217) with HTTP (WebMailUI); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:53:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 From: tonylabarbara@aol.com X-MB-Message-Type: User X-Mailer: AOL WebMail 31361-STANDARD Message-Id: <8C9DFADBD325F52-B64-40D1@webmail-mf04.sysops.aol.com> X-AOL-IP: 64.12.88.217 X-Spam-Flag: NO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How To Change Email Addr? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:53:51 -0000 newaliases is complaining permission denied, but it's owned by root and I'm in as root. What do? TIA, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bertrand To: tonylabarbara@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 9:59 am Subject: Re: How To Change Email Addr? tonylabarbara@aol.com wrote: > Hi; > I need to update the email address to which emails from the server are sent (root@server.name, cron stuff, etc.). I created a file: > /root/.foreward > and added the new address, but that didn't do it? How? If you are running sendmail, check for the root: line in: # /etc/mail/aliases Change the second parameter to what email address you want root's mail to go to, and then run: # newaliases Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com