setting the root email address

Jason C. Wells jcw at highperformance.net
Sun Mar 5 16:55:02 UTC 2006


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?

Look in /etc/mail/aliases.  This setting isn't BSD per se.  It's 
sendmail that reads the aliases database.

Later,
Jason C. Wells


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