Hello Jim hale, I think you'd better to modify /etc/aliases : root: youruserid
then, newaliases ( update the database of aliases ) or create .forward under home dir of root: /root/.forward: \youruserid Hope this can help you ! Edward. Jim Hale wrote: > Thanks for this info Bret - I'm still new to Linux and was trying to > figure out how to change who the messages went to instead of root. :) > > Been wanting to change that to an actual account that I *DO* pull mail > for. :) > > Jim Hale > --- > 'The OS Tells The PC What To Do With Itself" - Me, 1990 > --- > Visit Our MIDI & Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Bret Hughes > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 8:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Config of LogWatch and Cron > > On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 05:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > How to midify the config ( LogWatch,Cron etc ) of RedHat 7.2 ? Because > > > the root account always receive mails ( report of LogWatch and Cron ) > > each day... I want to reset the default time to delay... > > So, can you help me ? > > > > First I would like to say I believe this is a bad idea. > > Now lets see what is really happening. > > Cron is setup to run certian programs at given intervals, see > in the /etc/ directory > cron.daily > cron.monthly > cron.weekly > cron.d > cron.hourly > crontab > > the way cron works is that when a program runs, any output gets mailed > to the user defined in the MAILTO=blahblah variable which can be changed > to any valid email address > > you don't like having to deal with all the messages I guess. > > As I see it you can do one of several things: > set the programs to only run once a week - move the files from the > hourly and daily dirs to weekly > > don't run logcheck at all since you are not going to look at it. > > send all the mail to /dev/null since you are not going to look at it > anyway > > delete the /var/spool/mail/root file periodically you could even do it > via cron > > both of these are really bad ideas > > modify /etc/aliases to have root's mail sent to you and use procmail > filter to put it into a directory so you don't have to deal with it > daily. > > > Before you do any of the above make sure the machine is not connected to > the net and so no one will hack it and use it to attack other machines. > Probably should do this any way since you are not going to look at any > of the minimal stuff that RH sets up to let you know when something odd > id happening. > > Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
