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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Polytropon wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:09:51 +0000, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You should see these lines in /etc/crontab:
>>
>> # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
>> 1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
>> 15      4       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
>> 30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly
>>
>> You can set the MAILTO environment variable in /etc/crontab to mail to
>> an alternate address if needed.
>
> Another way is to edit /etc/mail/aliases and forward mail
> to root to your preferred account, e. g.
>
> 	root: myuser
>
> Note that "recompiling" sendmail's files is neccessary,

To be more precise, rebuilding the aliases file.

> and sendmail needs to be restarted. It is explained at the top of 
> Makefile in the /etc/mail directory. It's quite easy. :-)

But 'newaliases' is easier yet.  Is restarting sendmail after newaliases 
really necessary?  I change aliases so rarely I've never really noticed.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA