syslog messages

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Sun May 22 22:27:10 PDT 2005


At 10:13 PM 5/22/2005, you wrote:
>hi,
>when i get an error or warning in my system, a mail is sent to the root user.
>does anyone know how to change the settings so that the mail is sent to
>my mail id instead of localhost id ?

Just change where the root alias in /etc/mail/aliases points to.

for example:

root:   user at domain.com

don't forget to run newaliases after you make the change.

(this all assumes you're using sendmail)

-Glenn

>thanks guys.
>regrds,
>ananth.g
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