Hello, The entry root:marc must be commented, it is used to redirect it to some other user.If needed you can add the entry and run newaliases command to make the .db file. Hope i made this clear to you. On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 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 > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
