Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:02:37 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User Information (Easy Questions!) Message-ID: <17620.45837.588074.740658@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <44D4A3A2.3080306@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <44D478C2.5040205@web.vi> <44D48B18.3020401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <44D49564.6030408@web.vi> <44D4A3A2.3080306@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman writes: > > Where does it find the email address? > > The periodic emails are sent to root@localhost. There are at > least two every day, plus an extra at the end of each week and at > the end of each month -- you're expected to set up an alias that > forwards them to the sysadmins for the machine. > > Check /etc/mail/aliases, you should have a line that says > something like: > > root: youruid > > in there towards the top. Or you can consider the follofing lines found in my /etc/periodic.conf.local: daily_output="root huff" # user or /file daily_status_security_output="root huff" # user or /file weekly_output="root huff" # user or /file monthly_output="root huff" # user or /file "Fixing" root in etc/mail/aliases may work for programs for which this is not desirable. Robert Huff
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