Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Doug Sampson wrote: I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. You can do that directly in /etc/periodic.conf:

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
Mail log below. The first four lines are a result of running 'periodic daily'. The last four lines is when I address a mail directly to admin(at)dawnsign.com (the @ sign has been changed to protect it). Feb 6 17:00:03 ftp sendmail[11196]: l17103fh011196: from=root, size=38,

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. You can do that directly in /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nice to

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows a cure to this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I believe that

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows a cure to this, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/02/07 10:12, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: On 2007/02/07 9:33, Doug Sampson seems to have typed: Nice to know this. However, I still would like to fix the issue with the /etc/aliases not being used to translate any mail sent to root to an alternate email address. If anyone knows

RE: newaliases not working?

2007-02-07 Thread Doug Sampson
I believe that sendmail wants /etc/mail/aliases.db not /etc/aliases. You can remake your aliases.db by: cd /etc/mail make maps Does not seem to do the trick. Sorry, try: make aliases restart (more Makefile for other options) No dice. Feb 7 11:29:48 ftp sm-mta[11136]:

newaliases not working?

2007-02-06 Thread Doug Sampson
I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. But for some reason it doesn't get translated to the admin email address. I've run the 'newaliases' several

Re: newaliases not working?

2007-02-06 Thread Dan Busarow
On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Doug Sampson wrote: I'm having trouble getting the periodic reports sent out on a daily basis from a FreeBSD 6.2 server. I've changed the /etc/aliases file so that root points to an administrative mail address. But for some reason it doesn't get translated to