From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 16 13:50:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA6737B405 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAGLnx203979; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:49:58 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Kelly Hendrix Cc: Praveen Bobba , Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <20011116163646.A9763@www.slackwit.com> Message-ID: <20011116134634.C867-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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