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Date:      Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:51:29 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
Cc:        Steel City Phantom <scphantm@yahoo.com>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: setting the root email address
Message-ID:  <440B2521.50407@infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <440B182D.6000208@t-hosting.hu>
References:  <440B1680.9070506@yahoo.com> <440B182D.6000208@t-hosting.hu>

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K=F6vesd=E1n G=E1bor wrote:
> Steel City Phantom wrote:
>=20
>> one of my servers was set up by some guys in china.  i have gotten
>> everything figured out save one, somehow they got cron job results to
>> email to my business account.  i can't for the life of me figure out
>> how they did that.  where in bsd do i set another email address for ro=
ot?
>=20
> See /etc/aliases, you must find something like this:
>=20
> root:           yourmail
>=20
> If you want to change that, you should run newaliases after modifying t=
hat.

And if it's not set in /etc/mail/aliases, try checking for a /root/.forwa=
rd file.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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