From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 31 14:11:21 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 CAB7414C01 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:11:12 -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 12FOvH-000Ml7-00; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:03:51 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12FOvH-0004m6-00; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:03:51 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 22:03:51 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Tony Johnson Cc: jmutter@ds.net, "Freebsd-Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Charlie Root Message-ID: <20000131220351.A17648@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC9@piranha.showmaster.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <5527D19B23BFD3118FBC00E0811068061DC9@piranha.showmaster.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Johnson wrote: > It is a script that does a find under /home for new files on an ftp server > and emails the results. It is running as root to aviod permission problems > . you can set the name with sendmail's -F flag, you know. Just use something like "/usr/sbin/sendmail -F'different name here'" or something when you send the mail. That said, changing root's gecos field to just "root" is one of the first things I do after installing FreeBSD. -- 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