From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 16: 8:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017C737B423 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:08:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13XAmN-000Cdy-00; Fri, 08 Sep 2000 01:08:23 +0200 Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 01:08:23 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Rick Moore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root mail forwarding under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000908010823.A48583@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <003701c018f3$804578d0$04fea8c0@patches> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <003701c018f3$804578d0$04fea8c0@patches>; from rick@geckobot.com on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:46:07AM -0700 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-09-07 (10:46), Rick Moore wrote: > Hi- > > I'm sorry-- I know this is a lame question and I'm sure tons of people do > this but I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. When it comes to > email administration, I'm a newbie. > > I have a network of FreeBSD systems and I don't want to run around to each > one and check root mail. Instead, I'd like the mail handler to > automatically forward it all to this email account. I've tried adding > > root rick@geckobot.com > > and > > root@whatevermachine rick@geckobot.com > > followed by "make" to rebuild the database and HUP to sendmail, but mail to > root still doesn't seem to get forwarded. > > Is there an easy way to do this? Edit /etc/aliases, and add 'root: rick@geckobot.com' to it. Then type 'newaliases'. It should "just work". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message