setting the root email address

[Pete Slagle]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 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.

And if you still don't find it, look in /etc/crontab. I have sometimes
seen cron jobs that pipe directly into mail, i.e.,

   foo | mail -s"Zounds!" my_addy at example.com

Pete