Yes, thanks. I didn't notice, but it was commented out. Sorry about the over-sight. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Snehangshu Karmakar > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:04 AM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: Re: /etc/aliases > > > 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?subject=subscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
