Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:12:55 -0800 From: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> To: Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6?= Subject: Re: setting the root email address Message-ID: <440BB6C7.2030400@voidcaptain.com> In-Reply-To: <440B2521.50407@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <440B1680.9070506@yahoo.com> <440B182D.6000208@t-hosting.hu> <440B2521.50407@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote: >> 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 r= oot? >> See /etc/aliases, you must find something like this: >> >> root: yourmail >> >> If you want to change that, you should run newaliases after modifying = that. >=20 > And if it's not set in /etc/mail/aliases, try checking for a /root/.for= ward file. And if you still don't find it, look in /etc/crontab. I have sometimes seen cron jobs that pipe directly into mail, i.e., foo | mail -s"Zounds!" my_addy@example.com Pete
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