From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 11:29:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339BA159CD for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:28:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12CosP-000AXK-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:10:13 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12CosP-0001CT-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:10:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:10:13 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: David Banning Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is Charlie Root? Message-ID: <20000124191013.A4522@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <388C9AA9.7A66@worldy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <388C9AA9.7A66@worldy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning wrote: > When I mail from root the sender name is Chalie Root. > But that is not my name! > I changed to my name in /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd > I also looked in /etc/sendmail.cf and /etc/aliases It should be in /etc/master.passwd. Remember to edit it with "vipw", editing /etc/master.passwd directly will get you nowhere. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message