Hi could someone tell me how and if it is possible to e-mail the daily report from the server that is send to root@localhost to my own email?

I have Fedora core 2 running, does someone know how to fix this please?

Kind regards Robbert

What MTA are you using? Setup your root alias in the config to get forwarded to your other email, etc. But more details please to get a better answer.

I don't use a MTA(that is a mailserver right?) I have sendmail installed and running though. I want to install a mailserver too, but i am still trying to find out what mailserver to install and which server is installed easily.

Hope you help me out anyway or ask me things i can lookup for you. I posted it in the newbie section

Sendmail is a MTA..

Go into your /etc/mail/ directory and edit your aliases file. (It might be located elsewhere but by default the configuration files for sendmail are in /etc/mail/)

And if it has a line that says:

You can set that to whatever you want. Like myself, I run a mail server but have all messages go to my sysadmin alias. But you can also specify full email addresses if the user is not local on the system.

Example:

That would send all root email to trickykid@blahblah.com

After you edit the aliases file, just run newaliases as root.. and it will make the changes on the fly, no need to restart sendmail or your system.

Cheers

Gr8 thx for writing it out for me, i really appreciate it. I found it, only on my machine it could be found under /etc/aliases, just for those who can't find it

Thx for your help,
Kind regards Robbert