a modest request (smartd email redirection....)

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sat Dec 18 01:23:14 UTC 2004


On 12/17/2004 04:35:23 PM, William Hewitt wrote:
> 
> > Michal Jaegermann said:
> > In /etc/aliases you probably have lines like that:
> 
> > # Person who should get root's mail
> > #root:          marc
> 
> > Maybe install should ask data for this alias and fill that lines
> > unless specifically and emphatically declined?  The big advantage  
> is
> > that this solves the issue in a general way instead for some
> > specific cases like smart.
> 
> Or perhaps in FirstBoot(?)

firstboot is where it should go imho - you don't have any users set up  
until then. It needs to be done somewhere, and that is where users are  
created so that's the logical spot.





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