root's email address - how to change?

Gustavo Seabra gustavo.seabra at gmail.com
Sat Apr 2 08:22:00 UTC 2005


On Apr 2, 2005 2:15 AM, Robert Slade <fedora at bathnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 09:03, tonydm wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to change the email address for the root user.  The email address
> > configured for the root user is pointing to a subdomain of the website
> > on the server.  Don't know why I did it that way when I installed FC3,
> > but I need to change it so that my log monitor is emailing the reports
> > to the correct address.  Did a search on Google, but either overlooked
> > the solution, or didn't find one.  Thanks
> 
> > tonydm
> 
> Tony,
> 
> It depends on your mta, but try looking at /etc/aliases. Don't forget to
> run newaliases it you edit it.
> 
> Rob

Meanwhile, a quick-and-dirty solution might be to add a .forward file
wherever the e-mails are getting (I think).

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