On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:28:03 -0600 (CST), John Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Then smart, mdadm, cron, etc could continue sending mail to root > and it would end up in the primary user's mailbox without the user needing > to understand the gory details or each package needing to be smarter. I don't think i was advocating that each package become invidually smarter. Effective redirection of notification emails to an administrative user is just one aspect of the larger problem in defining an administrative user role instead of relying on people to use root user. There is a larger discussion about pre-configuring sudo for an adminstrative role for tasks instead of using a root user password that i was hoping to inspire. Sadly people actually wanted to solve this email problem and came up with a targetted solution. -jef