Thanks you guys!! I didn't notice it was commented out. :-( I was getting worried over nothing. Thanks again!! On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 16:39, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Friday 30 July 2004 20:40, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was looking at my /etc/aliases files and noticed that I have the entry: > > > > root: marc > This should be commented out in the aliases file - it was only ever intended > as an example of how to alias root's mail to an unprivileged user. > Ideally you should have such an alias in place - it is considered bad practice > to log in as root just to read email. > > > > Is this correct? I don't have a user "marc". I am getting mail for > > "root", so what is this? What should it be in a RedHat 9.0 system? > just replace marc with the name of an unprivileged user that you want to use > for this purpose. You must run the 'newaliases' command after doing this. > I would assume that if you are looking at the aliases file you may already > have known this... > HTH > > Stuart > -- > Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX -- Thomas E. Dukes <edukes@xxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
