From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 15:06:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBFC16A55C for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF3B43D45 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 29542 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2006 15:06:02 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Aug 2006 15:06:01 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 549B828449; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:01 -0400 (EDT) To: jekillen References: <5b3e8f769d1857a07e1f494cdaf6a035@prodigy.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:06:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5b3e8f769d1857a07e1f494cdaf6a035@prodigy.net> (jekillen@prodigy.net's message of "Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:47:11 -0700") Message-ID: <44psekgasm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mail to root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Mailing List List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:06:05 -0000 jekillen writes: > Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge a comprehensive > text that will offer an analysis of every possible mail message to > root and what it means. Well, no, any more than there is a comprehensive text that will list every single noise your car might make and what it means. > rc.conf to set the aliases and rebooted the machine. The new aliases > didn't > show up with ifconfig so I added them with ifconfig ( I must have made > a mistake > in the rc.conf lines). Right. Sounds like you put inappropriate lines in rc.conf, which is only supposed to contain variable settings, not actual commands. Since you didn't show the lines you'd added, we can't suggest the right way to do it, but look at the if settings in rc.conf(5) and the Handbook description of configuring networking. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/