Which processes doi Really Need

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Thu Jan 13 22:55:01 UTC 2005


Am Do, den 13.01.2005 schrieb Charles E Taylor IV um 23:50:

> Funny thing is, if you do the right thing on your notebook and don't run
> as root, you won't get these notifications.  They'll just pile up in
> root's mailbox.
> 
> Perhaps the Fedora installer should provide a way to hsve these messages
> sent to a normal user account on the system instead?  (If it does, I
> missed it.)
> 
> Personally, logwatch (the source of the daily e-mails) annoys the **** out
> of me. But I use Linux on a laptop, not on a server.

> *  Charles Taylor <tomalek at mindspring.com>

I fear not all can be automated. You will need to edit /etc/aliases and
set the root alias (prepared and commented at the end of the aliases
file) to direct to your mortal user. Then run newaliases to make the
change active.

Alexander


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