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10-28-2004, 07:41 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 7.3, Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 178
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forward root email
When I do an ls on /var/spool/mail the root user has a file called "root" which seems to have mail in it for the root user. How can I set this mail to forward so that the mail file does not keep growing?
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10-28-2004, 09:30 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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What MTA are you using? If its sendmail which is default, try creating an alias for roots mail to forward to another user, etc.
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10-29-2004, 09:06 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 7.3, Mandrake 9.2
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I believe it is sendmail.
how do I create an alias using the command line?
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10-29-2004, 09:14 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 7.3, Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 178
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okay. I figured it out.
/etc/aliases
then i ran
newaliases
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10-29-2004, 09:15 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 7.3, Mandrake 9.2
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thanks for the help
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10-29-2004, 09:16 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Distribution: Mandrake 9.0, RedHat 7.3, Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 178
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I have another question.
what about the 2MB of emails that have already been sent to root?
How can I get those either forwarded or cleared?
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