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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
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Subject: Re: setting the root email address
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Steel City Phantom wrote:
> one of my servers was set up by some guys in china.  i have gotten 
> everything figured out save one, somehow they got cron job results to 
> email to my business account.  i can't for the life of me figure out how 
> they did that.  where in bsd do i set another email address for root?

Look in /etc/mail/aliases.  This setting isn't BSD per se.  It's 
sendmail that reads the aliases database.

Later,
Jason C. Wells