Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:49:58 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Kelly Hendrix <kelly@slackwit.com> Cc: Praveen Bobba <pbobba1@panam.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011116134634.C867-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011116163646.A9763@www.slackwit.com>
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Kelly Hendrix wrote: > > How to forward the root user email to another user > > > > Thank you > > Go to /root. Create a file called .forward with the following > information: > > user #local user on same machine > user@otherhost # users on other machines or domains this is a bad idea. it may be 'easier' to handle, but if the file permissions are wrong, it allows someone else to see/change/modify the root email. it's better form to use the aliases(5) file to handle forwarding of roots email to a local user or users. > Of course user is the name of a legitimate user on the local machine and > user@otherhost is an email address. See man forward for more info. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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