From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 20 04:46:02 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 3655C16A492 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2DFE43D4C for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:46:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 60817 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2006 04:46:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:Content-Type:To:From:Subject:Date:X-Mailer; b=FQXCLPQ4qUsR9zwre9iCUgazL2qmKcrFWyfos9ijO6YD+3KpIiofPZUk4EnFEMgJffcdiJCOqEageq4r327xRlo4b5qtvk59cqbIdrv+7R0VMcUm4zjwvjge6/89lJx0/Hri9jmvEadjd3ISAsTTLMwEFScnELyIqCAOi1XWTmA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp106.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2006 04:46:00 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <2d6e28fbc9d4d02b9c37e9f9c2ee62d7@prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Mailing List From: jekillen Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:50:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: mail to root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:46:02 -0000 Hello again; I have a question about how mail from the system is generated for root. This question was prompted when I edited the Postfix aliases file and ran newaliases, then did postfix reload, assuming the mail system was running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question, how does mail generated by the system get delivered to the root account? Here is my motive: I have a server that I want to run headless. I want to be able to retrieve mail to root from another machine via ssh login (on the same private net work number/netmask 255.255.255.0). I cannot login to the system as root over ssh. I don't know if I can read root mail with su (as wheel group member). I tried this but maybe I'm not using the appropriate parameter. Or maybe there isn't any. I don't know where to look for an answer to this question, other than this knowledgeable group.....Oh, man mail maybe? Thanks in advance Jeff K