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[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:23 +0100, David Henry Wild wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:20 -0500, micheal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > > At 1:28 AM -0500 10/3/05, micheal wrote:
> > > >On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:53 -0300, Franck Y wrote:
> > > >> Hi everyone,
> > > >>
> > > >> What are the main file (logs), that I sould check if the computer is
> > > >>going well
> > > >> .
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Franck
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >basically all the log files are in /var/logs
> > > 
> > > Logwatch sends an email to root each day summarizing anything it thinks is
> > > interesting (or rather, that it doesn't believe is uninteresting).  You'd
> > > need to log in as root and read the mail; maybe someone here has a better
> > > approach.
> > > ____________________________________________________________________
> > > TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
> > >       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> > > 
> > 
> > Here is what I have done.  Edit /etc/aliases as root. Around the last
> > line of the file there is something similiar to
> > 
> >   # Person who should get root's mail
> > 	root:			micheal
> > 
> > I have it going to my local spool, however you can edit this with any
> > e-mail address you wish.
> > 
> > After you are done. run the command newaliases as root.
> > 
> > Now all you have to do is check the mail for the e-mail you have set up
> > as an 'alias' for root, and you are set.
> > 
> > Micheal 
> > 
> I've done this to redirect mail to another, non Linux, computer which is
> on my network by sending it to dhwild at talktalk.net. The message actually
> arrives, attached to an error message which says that it should have a
> real email address rather than root at localhost.
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> 
> How do I arrange that, please?

I had that message until I put my machines actual IP address
in /etc/hosts on the machine creating the log message.

It seems to not like it if the only line there is the localhost loopback
address.

But, that is in fact only an informational message.

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