Re: Changing Root E-Mail address

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/22/2010 12:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>>>> If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in
>>>> /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'.
>>>
>>> Or you can edit
>>>
>>> 	/etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
>>>
>>> and change line 64
>>>
>>> 	$Config{'mailto'} = "root";
>> Exactly what I did earlier.
>
> I would strongly recommend using /etc/aliases and NOT editing
> logwatch.pl as any updates to logwatch will collide with your edit,
> leaving you with .rpmnew files to merge.

And, there may be other interesting/critical mail coming to root.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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