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 th
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:
daily_output="
> > 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,
> > siz
> > 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]"
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 th
> 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.
> > Thank
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 a
> >> 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
