re-directing root's mail to my external mail id

[M.Hockings]

David Jansen wrote:

>Others already pointed out that the aliases file will probably work well
>for what you want.
>Just an additional note: sendmail is somewhat paranoid about .forward
>permissions (and rightly so): if a .forward is world writable or the home
>directory is, it will refuse to use it, and some message about this will
>end up in your system logs. Maybe that's where the difference between
>your systems was.
>
>David Jansen
>
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>
I don't think that the use of  /etc/aliases or .forward makes any 
difference, sendmail is trying to send the message.  Just by looking at 
the maillog it appears that it is sent but it only arrives from the one 
machine and goes into the bit bucket in the sky for the other two 
machines.  I did notice the difference in the maillog between a working 
an a non-working machine but I don't know if it matters or not.

Mike