Just as an FYI, the alias of root to marc has been there for ages. A bit of nostalgia from 'back in tha day.' The 'marc' refers to Marc Ewing - one of the founders of Red Hat.
-----Original Message----- From: Ward William E DLDN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Weird .forward results (RH7.3) /etc/aliases has the default for 7.3; root is NOT aliased (although there is a commented out root: marc field... hadn't noticed that before). Anyway, I went ahead and uncommented it, changed it to my account, and tried it again. It worked. So, I guess .forward doesn't work under 7.3, they want you to use /etc/aliases instead. Odd, but ok. Bill Ward > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Buehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:37 PM > > Where does your /etc/aliases file say root should go too? If > you have it > setup to go to other than root, than there is your problem. > It will do > what the aliases file says to do before it tries to go to the root > account. There is a possibility that it just won't work with > root.....not > sure. But if you are trying to get all of the mail to go to > another email > address, why don't you just set it up in the /etc/aliases file anyway. > > Steve > > At 05:23 PM 10/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >I'm having some odd results with .forward under RH7.3, > >which I only recently caught. > > > >Basically, everyone EXCEPT root can have a functional .forward. > >Root's .forward DOES NOT WORK. Period. It blasts right > >through the .forward and ignores it. I've tried to set > >.forward to a user on the machine and I've tried setting it > >to an external email address, neither works; it still goes > >to root's mailbox. > > > >This is VERY odd; I never saw this behavior in any other *nix, > >nor even in other versions of Unix. > > > >Anyone seen anything like this before? Anyone have a clue > >what is causing it? Sendmail is not running, but that shouldn't > >matter at all. And like I said, all of the OTHER users can > >properly get .forward working. I want to mail a copy of > >the messages to my primary account so that I can see them without > >having to be logged in as root. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
