/etc/aliases

[Snehangshu Karmakar]

Hello,

The entry root:marc must be commented, it is used to redirect it to some other user.If needed you can add the entry and run newaliases command to make the .db file.

Hope i made this clear to you.  

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 Stuart Sears wrote :
>On Friday 30 July 2004 20:40, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was looking at my /etc/aliases files and noticed that I have the entry:
> >
> > root:  marc
>This should be commented out in the aliases file - it was only ever intended
>as an example of how to alias root's mail to an unprivileged user.
>Ideally you should have such an alias in place - it is considered bad practice
>to log in as root just to read email.
> >
> > Is this correct?  I don't have a user "marc".  I am getting mail for
> > "root", so what is this?  What should it be in a RedHat 9.0 system?
>just replace marc with the name of an unprivileged user that you want to use
>for this purpose. You must run the 'newaliases' command after doing this.
>I would assume that if you are looking at the aliases file you may already
>have known this...
>HTH
>
>Stuart
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>
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