On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:54:44AM -0800, Jim Trocki wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, htabug wrote: > > > Hello > > > > In my current mon configuration, whenever the mail.alert script is called emails >are sent by the super user or root. Is there any way that a different user can be >specified to be the sender. > > is there a particular reason why you're running mon as root? does it > need to be running as root for any of your monitor scripts? i normally > run it as user "mon", and all the emails come from "mon".
Listen to Jim on this one. It should be habit to install daemons running as a non-root user, including mon. -- Nate Campi http://www.campin.net GnuPG key: 0xC17AEF79 Key fingerprint = BF12 722F 8799 E614 33CC FAB7 5A90 C464 C17A EF79 God does not play dice. -- Einstein
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