setting the root email address

[Matthew Seaman]

Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
> Steel City Phantom wrote:
> 
>> one of my servers was set up by some guys in china.  i have gotten
>> everything figured out save one, somehow they got cron job results to
>> email to my business account.  i can't for the life of me figure out
>> how they did that.  where in bsd do i set another email address for root?
> 
> See /etc/aliases, you must find something like this:
> 
> root:           yourmail
> 
> If you want to change that, you should run newaliases after modifying that.

And if it's not set in /etc/mail/aliases, try checking for a /root/.forward file.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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